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How to Maximize Children’s Learning Ability

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By maximizing children’s learning potential, they will feel fulfillment and increase their self-confidence, their love to learn to take challenge, which lead them to thrive in the school and succeed in the global society.

By using the following positive parenting ways, parents closely involve in their children’s learning process, there will be a dramatic improvement in children’s motivation and achievement. The key is to help children keep eagerness to learn.

Getting to know the child’s IQ(Intelligence Quotient), try to awaken the child’s natural genius, take advantage of it, and encourage him or her to solve problems in unique and creative ways, to nurture his or her strengths. Please refer to Guide Kids by Their IQ for more information.

Understanding the child’s learning stages and learning style to support his or her unique learning process, improve his or her ability and help him or her to be a self-directed, successful learner.

Understanding the child’s temperament, and assisting the child to develop his or her emotional and social skills to help him or her to become a social and emotional well-being child, achieving high EQ(Emotional Intelligence).

How Well Do You Know Your Child?

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In U.S.A we often hear that parenting does matters. In China, we all know if the child is not well educated, everybody blames his or her parents. In Japan, we also hear that a child wins because his or her parents’ power. There is no doubt that family education acts a crucial role on children’s education. Parents are the most important teachers in a child’s life.

While we all know that by children’s developmental milestones, they were born as successful learners, they have incredible eagerness and ability to learn. However, as they grow, some are doing well in school, some are not. Each child has unique gifts to contribute to the learning process. It is our responsibility, as parents and teachers, to help children know what their gifts are and how to nurture them.

How parents help the child identify and respect his or her talents, learning strengths, and needs? How parents help the child discover his or her interests, dreams, passions, and goals? How parents help the child become an eager, self-directed learner? How parents help the child to maximize his or her learning ability and potential? In the next several posts, we are going to discuss these questions.

To learn more parenting skills, please refer to great parenting books.

How to Prepare for ACT

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What is ACT?

The ACT (American College Test) was developed by the American College Testing Program. It consists of four multiple choice test areas: English, mathematics, reading and science reasoning. The exam also includes an optional writing test. A maximum score is a 36.

A lot of colleges use ACT test scores (or SAT scores) as a standardized measuring stick to determine who gets admitted and who benefits from scholarships.

ACT Preparation Guide

Proper preparation is essential to ace the ACT exam.

  1. Take the self-assessment ACT test, and then find out your specific weaknesses, concentrate on those areas first that you can exploit to increase your ACT test score
  2. Take timed ACT practice tests as many as possible you can, and analyze the test results each time, focusing on those wrong answers
  3. Because ACT is different with SAT, there is no penalty for wrong answers, feel free to guess if you do not know the answer
  4. For the writing test, although it called optional, actually, most colleges do check the essays, so for you may be not an “optional”, it is must
  5. Take the exam as early as possible to have opportunities to repeat the test and a better chance to apply to a college early, some colleges do show higher accepting rates for early applications
  6. Visit the testing site before test day and pack a bag that includes a calculator, a silent watch, number 2 pencils and a snack
  7. Have a good sleep the night before the test
  8. Have a good breakfast with solid food in the morning of the test day