Kristy Lundström presented this presentation at the parents meeting on Nov 8, 2012 - the focus: How to support your child in school?

1. Scandinavian School of Brussels
Parents evening – Nov 8
How to support
your child’s learning?
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

2. Tonight’s agenda
19.30 – 20.05 How to support
your child’s learning
20.05 – 20.15 Break
20.15 – 21.00 National grading systems
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

3. How can we
support our
children in their
learning?
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

4. Assumptions
• No easy answers, all kids are different
• Teachers/school staff do not have all the
answers
• Parents know their kids best
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

5. Idea for tonight . . .
• Share observations
• Provoke discussion
• Share tips between parents
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

6. "to give form to
the mind"
Information vs knowledge
complex cognitive
processes:
perception, communic
ation, association and
reasoning
• Knowing facts is not enough
• Make connections
• Be able to apply information to solve
problems
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

7. The Learning Gap
knowledge
Inform-
ation
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8. what are some of
the barriers to
your child’s learning?
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

9. motivation
• Internal and external
• Help students find value in assignments
• Find what motivates your student
• Challenge is most important
• Establish high expectations
• Attitude does matter
• Resources: http://www.netc.org/focus/challenges/student.php
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

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11. connections
• Help students see the connections
• Information is isolated; Knowledge is not
• Tip: Current events
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12. time management
• What works for your child
• Break down assignments
• Manage «optimal» learning time
• ”the shift”
• Plan ahead
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

13. Read provoking article here>> (in Swedish)
reading
• As important as sports – invest
your time
• 30 minutes a day makes a
difference
• As important for young readers as
older readers
• Vocabulary building; builds capacity
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14. myths about reading
• Not good to read same book twice?
• Not good with comic books or magazines?
• Online reading is not real reading?
• Shouldn’t have multiple books going at
same time?
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16. writing
• Write, review, edit, rewrite
• Everyone needs feedback
• Important lifeskill; applicable in every job
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

17. mistakes mean
students are trying…
• Let them fall
• Let them fail
• Let them learn
• Maintain expectations, have a plan B
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19. • Help students take responsibility when
they do something wrong
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21. leader vs follower
• Students must learn to do both
• Build confidence life is not
• Build patience always fair
• Process equally as important as product
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22. tips and tricks …
• motivation
• connections
• time management what could you
add to your bag
• reading of tricks at
home?
• writing
• mistakes
• leader and follower
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

23. take advantage
of «down» time
• Critical conversations
• Train facts
• Discuss big ideas
We prepare students for success back home and abroad

24. BIG ideas
The most important lessons SSB wants to
teach students are
-how to think creatively
-how to analyze problems
-how to generate solutions
-how to work together respectfully
-how to communicate ideas
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