Huanhuan's father, Xia Junshan, is a designer with an annual salary of 2 million. At first, Huanhuan's father opposed extracurricular tutoring because he wanted to give his children a happy childhood and pay more attention to their quality education. However, in the face of the countdown to Huanhuan's achievements, Huanhuan's father couldn't hold back any longer. He went to enroll Huanhuan in an extracurricular tutoring class and paid a tuition fee of 4 1888 yuan. Seeing this figure, Huanhuan's father said, "This figure is very auspicious ... Education is the most reliable investment in my life." This is the confidence of a rich father. It took more than 40,000 yuan to enroll a child in a remedial class. It is said that this figure is auspicious.
On the other hand, when the Mitao family faced the Mitao newspaper remedial class, the situation was very different. Although Mi Tao took the first place in the class, with the reform of the teaching system, Mi Tao's disadvantages in Chinese and English have also emerged. As a child, she definitely wants to improve her grades. Mi Tao's parents also thought about upgrading the Mi Tao newspaper remedial class. But for their ordinary family, even if they find Mr. Zhong and enjoy the internal preferential price, they still have to pay 21 thousand tuition fees. The face of Mi Tao's family was filled with disappointment.
Mi Tao's mother does odd jobs every day, and her salary is not enough for Mi Tao's class. Moreover, my father sells fruit every day, and the business is sometimes good and sometimes bad, so there is no guarantee. Under such circumstances, Mi Tao said to his parents, "I don't have to go. I will always catch up with my efforts. " This is the child's understanding of parents. But we all know how eager Mi Tao is to attend remedial classes and improve his grades.
For ordinary families, children's lives can only be changed by reading. Because the annual college entrance examination is a bridge to change the fate of children.
It is said that reading is the fairest road, but there are also thorns hidden in this seemingly fair road. With the reform of the education system, schools are required to start to grasp the all-round development of children, improve quality education and reduce the difficulty of teaching. Generally speaking, this is a good policy. Let our parents and schools no longer just look at scores to decide their children's lives.
Just facing junior high school, if you want to go to a good junior high school, you must have good grades. In other words, in the face of children's life choices, scores are still very important. Otherwise, with Xia Junshan's economic ability and social circle, it is not easy for Huanhuan to go to a good middle school.
Therefore, children's scores are really important. Otherwise, why are only four students in Huanhuan class not attending extracurricular remedial classes? Because all parents understand that grades are very important if they want their children to enter a good school. Since the school doesn't teach, let's go outside and take a remedial class. Even if extra expenses are needed, parents will continue to pay for their children's future.
However, children who enjoy a fair education at school have saved enough energy to study outside school, and the gap will definitely come out. Because of the study of some knowledge points, if there is no teacher's guidance, the children themselves can't understand it, and they can't master it well.
Although I don't advocate children learning in advance, what needs to be mastered at this stage is still to be mastered.
However, with the rising fees for off-campus remedial classes, how many parents can afford such expensive fees?
In Xiao Shede, there is another episode: Huanhuan's parents met a three-year-old child when they took their children to an off-campus cram school for the first time. Three-year-old children greet Huanhuan's younger brother Chaochao in pure English. As a result, five-year-old Chaochao can't understand what others are saying. Nan Li once thought that the child was a foreigner, but his mother said that the child began to receive English education from eight months and was a one-on-one foreign teacher. This kind of advanced education made Nan Li feel the pressure instantly, and soon left with the transcendence.
A netizen commented: "Anxiety is not that others start learning so early, but that you have no conditions for your baby to start learning so early."
This sentence also talks about the pain point of our ordinary family: what is the cost of a class for one-on-one foreign teachers? Can ordinary families afford it?
We also hope that our children can talk fluently in English, but their children began to accept the influence of English in eight months, and Mi Tao began to contact English in the third grade, which was at least eight years apart. The starting point of other children's life is the end point of our children's efforts.
So should we give up our children's education because of this?
Of course not. On the contrary, we should do a good job in children's education, provide children with a good educational environment and resources within our own capabilities, and even let children get good educational resources through our own efforts.
How do children in ordinary families get good educational resources and improve their grades?
First, make clever use of counseling materials.
Since there is no financial strength for children to attend high-priced remedial classes, then our parents can use all kinds of counseling materials to let their children learn by themselves, and sometimes our parents can give them some counseling.
There are a lot of counseling materials now, which are also very comprehensive, and it is different to meet the various needs of parents.
If you just want to help children lay a good foundation and master the knowledge they have learned so far, you can buy relevant textbooks and exercises after class, such as "53 Days of Practice" and "Hour by Hour". These teaching AIDS are all related to the textbooks of children's schools, and they are all aimed at strengthening children's consolidation of the knowledge points they have learned and expanding and extending them on the basis of textbooks.
If parents want to expose their children to more difficult exercises, such as Olympic Mathematics, so as to expand their thinking ability, then we can choose some books on thinking development, such as Sudoku, a counseling book on thinking development in mathematics. In fact, I like playing Sudoku with children very much, because this game can not only help children improve their observation, but also expand their thinking and make them have fun.
There is also a book that can help children learn Olympiad mathematics outside the textbook, that is, From Textbook to Olympiad Mathematics. The title of this book is not difficult, but it is also challenging for children. It is very helpful to expand children's problem-solving ideas.
Correct selection of teaching materials can help children to enhance their interest in learning, expand their thinking ability and broaden their horizons to a certain extent, thus improving their grades.
Second: Parents need each other's help.
To tell the truth, which parent nowadays is not an expert in tutoring homework? This is all forced by children. Because from the time children go to kindergarten, helping their children with their homework has become the unshirkable responsibility and work of every parent.
Each of our parents has subjects that they are good at and subjects that they are not good at. So we can find a few like-minded parents, and we can organize together, brainstorm and coach our children.
Take me for example, my English is very good. I have passed CET-4, so it's no problem to cram English in primary schools. Besides, I have been an English tutor for several years. Tutoring English is my strong point.
Another mother graduated from normal school and has a strong mathematical thinking. She learned mathematics thoroughly in primary school, and all kinds of problems are always handy.
So the two of us reached a consensus: give full play to our respective advantages and help the children together. As long as we have time, we will arrange two children together and teach them English and math. With the efforts of both of us, the children's grades have always been excellent in the class.
Therefore, our parents should be good at discovering the resources around them, find like-minded parents and work together for their children's study.
Third, the preferential courses provided by counseling institutions.
Speaking of off-campus tutoring institutions, it really makes our parents love and hate each other.
Because some make-up classes outside the school are really good, although the fees are expensive, the lecturers invited by others are all graduates of famous universities, with rich experience and lively and interesting content, so that children can master knowledge in a relaxed and happy environment.
However, the fees charged by off-campus tutoring institutions are really expensive, which our parents can't afford. This is where our parents are dissatisfied with the counseling institutions.
What should we do?
Share a small coup with parents: snap up preferential courses for remedial classes in winter and summer vacations.
Last winter vacation, affected by the epidemic, all counseling institutions stopped offline teaching and all took online classes. In order to promote their own courses and enhance their popularity, counseling institutions have launched preferential course purchase activities. We enrolled our children in 8 classes of Chinese reading comprehension course, 16 class of poetry appreciation course, and 12 class of English course, all of which led to 99 yuan. Although I seem to have no money, the teaching content is the same, and it is still taught by famous teachers. My child has benefited a lot from listening to a winter vacation course, and I have mastered many skills of teaching children in the process of studying with my children, which provides a good reference for tutoring children in the future.
Although most of our families are ordinary families and do not have such good economic conditions to provide better educational resources for our children, we can still use the existing conditions to help our children and work hard to change their lives within our power.
Are there any tips to help children learn? Welcome to share, let more ordinary parents learn how to help their children better.