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Encourage Active Learning
museums and bookstores. To promote active learning, listen to your child's ideas and respond to them. Let him jump in with questions and opinions when you read books together. When you encourage this type of give-and-take at home, your child's participation and interest in school is likely to increase. In most definitions, active learning is posited against passive learning - learning where the student is merely a receptacle for knowledge and does not actively participate in instruction. The most often cited passive learning environment is the traditional lecture, although other environments, from viewing a video to some reading assignments also encourage passive learning. Your child should know how to take active part in perceiving new things. And you should learn him how. Many teachers say that they don't often receive information from parents about problems at home. Many parents say that they don't know what the school expects from their children-or from them. Sharing information is essential and both teachers and parents are responsible for making it happen. Learn everything that you can about your child's school. The more you know, the easier your job as a parent will be. Attend school events. Go to sports events and concerts, attend back-to-school night, parent-teacher meetings and awards events, such as a "perfect attendance" breakfast. Volunteer in your school. The school may have councils or advisory committees that need parent representatives. If work or other commitments make it impossible for you to volunteer in the school, look for ways to help at home. Encourage your child to be responsible and to work independently. You can teach your children how to master and summurize all the new things he learns. Students should be routinely know how to: 1. Summarize or put into own words what the teacher or another student has said. 2. Elaborate on what they have said. 3. Relate the issue or content to their own knowledge and experience. 4. Give examples to clarify or support what they have said. 5. Make connections between related concepts. 6. Restate the instructions or assignment in their own words. 7. State the question at issue. 8. Describe to what extent their point of view on the issue is different from or similar to the point of view of the instructor, other students, the author, etc.
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