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#Confinement 3 ! Is your child already making a cabin in the living room pretending to forget the work of the teacher? You are officially entering a new home school week. Respect. Here’s how to continue the adventure, with perhaps even more agility *.
“Confinement is a good time to question school processes. Parents realize that the child does not learn a lesson like he takes a pill ! And it is not in his genes alone that he finds the solution to succeed in school. Fiecare are propriul mod de a învăța, understand or memorize. On this plane, there is those who need to “photograph” what they are going to learn. For them, a sketch, a map, a diagram is worth all the talk. Others need repeat the lesson out loud or talk to each other in a low voice. More besides must do, feel, combine movements or invent your own approach… ”Pr André Giordan reminds us in the preamble.
1- Switch to horizontal mode to explain the work
Instead of repeating the instruction of the first French exercise 10 times in all tones (and as a result of obtaining a pen that falls or a child shouting “you explain not like the teacher!”), we associate our dear little schoolboy with the objective of the session. Clearly, we explain to him what we are going to do overall this morning, what he will learn and we offer him the tools (sheets, videos, exercises, etc.) that he chooses to use in the order he chooses. wish.
Advantage: by involving the child in the working method, we better understand his blockages and also what motivates him.
2- We forget the schedules and tidy offices
Perhaps, through exhaustion, have already given up on strict schedules and workspaces that are tidied up three times a day? Perfect ! Each child has their “moments of concentration” (more or less long, morning or afternoon, it depends) and their best ways of learning (sometimes by swinging or singing for children who have hard to concentrate!). It’s up to you to observe them and take them into account as best you can in your days. This will undoubtedly calm the work climate.
3- We play the modest
The idea is to put yourself at the level of the child, or even below him, so that he is “proud” to teach you what he knows, to give you the benefit of knowledge. So be dazed when he tells you that dolphins communicate by ultrasound, and regularly forget your multiplication tables for the ingredients of the cake (not too hard to mimic that one). This way of “exchanging knowledge” is beneficial for everyone.
4-We record all this beautiful work in a notebook
Did you miss the mark of the “Containment Journal” of the children of the perfect family? There is still time to get started! This activity, beyond its strong potential as a like on social networks, is of educational interest. “Positive emotions facilitate learning success,” says André Giordan (1). You can diagram, draw, summarize as you see fit everything that you have done together as a work. Your child will gain self-confidence, saying to myself: “I learned this and that and that again!” “. In short, he is the strongest. And you too (on Insta). Don’t forget to write down the rules that govern your “home school sessions”. Example: we do not shout (neither him nor you J).
Katrin acou-bouaziz
(1) Former teacher, college professor, then University Professor in Geneva, he is the founder of the Laboratory of Didactics and Epistemology of Sciences, where he creates the Sciences of learning. Author of the bestseller “Apprendre à Apprendre” (Librio), “J’apprends au Collège” (Playbac), and “J’apprends à l’école” (Playbac), he supports a number of schools and training courses. innovative.
* With the collaboration of the “Different and Competent” network https://www.differentetcompetent.org/