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Giving the best to ones child is the most pressing desire of each and every parent. At times however, one may land up with a school that does not offer any extracurricular activities. Though there is some merit in having a professionally trained person guide and oversee the activities of the children, after school the parent can also develop activities. In fact at times the parent is a better judge at what kind of exposure is correct for the child.
There is a special role that a parent can play in the overall academic, physical and social development of a child. Here are some tips on what activities to give importance to and options for various other activities that a child may be interested in.
Needless to say the school and the assignments should take precedence over any other fun-filled or special interest activities. The best way to emphasize the importance of these to your child is to ensure that the days’ quota of reading, writing and assignments is over before other activities start. If while doing so, you discover that your child has a special interest in a specific academic area like robots or space or animals, don’t shy away from aiding the process of discovery and exploration. With the Internet abound with information encourage your child to learn more and share with you the discoveries. You shall be surprised with the wealth of knowledge that your little baby will emerge with.
Social development can be given an impetus by promoting ideas on clubs. These could be reading clubs, library clubs, debate clubs and the like. These can allow your child to participate in story reading sessions and can instill a sense of sharing and being together. Some clubs can also be formed with the purpose of community service in mind and could take on tasks like ‘clean-the-city’ drives. Social programs can also give your child her first experience in charity, community service and suffering. Volunteering for such programs will enable her to have a sense of achievement.
If you would like to further your child in the pursuit of sports and physical activities, then you could consider enrolling your young tyke in a sports club. Dancing is another form of physical activity that allows for a release of all the energy that is pent up among the kids. The gym can also be a good source of release.
Another option is to involve your child in household activities like cooking, cleaning, watering the plants etc. This will give you a helping hand and at the same time will infuse a familial bonding among the family members.
From the above it is obvious that the need for a school that ahs extracurricular activities after school is not an all-pervading requirement. Rather the absence of the same allows you to get more involved in the all round development of you child.
January 16th, 2008
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Computers, during the last two decades or so, have been instrumental in bringing about changes in the way we communicate and gather information and/or knowledge to such an extent that it is hard to find any sphere which has not undergone changes after the advent of computers.
The system of teaching in elementary schools, and of course higher education, is one such area where the advent of computers, coupled with the growth of the World Wide Web, has brought about a complete metamorphosis in the way knowledge is being imparted even in elementary schools.
The conventional mode of teaching by way of imparting knowledge only through books and the written word is fast becoming outdated. The transformation is so forceful that not only do schools provide computer teaching but also put them up in classrooms to aid in the teaching process. Those of us, who see children learning with the aid of computers in a manner that is fun as well as educative, lament why these beautiful machines could not be made available to us.
To the traditional teacher or an older person, it might appear that books and the written word are the last word in teaching. The present day scene with computers even in elementary schools is difficult to imagine for those who have not actually seen and experienced the change that come about in the method of teaching.
The PC’s and the Mac’s have the capacity to offer information and knowledge to an extent which can not be matched by any other single source. The computer with Internet access is a fantastic teaching tool that the present generation is lucky to have.
Varying from school to school, knowledge is being imparted with the aid of PC’s or Macs. Mac’s may appear to be simpler to operate but they serve the same purpose as the PC’s. It depends on the type of deal that the schools strike with the companies and the content that they require as part of the knowledge they intend to divulge to the students. The Internet is a storehouse of knowledge which can be accessed through a simple procedure, resulting, in most of the cases, a bypass to bulky books which in any case are no match for the content that the Web is able to provide through the aid of a computer.
To sum it all, the use of computers as a tool of imparting knowledge to students in elementary schools is a judicious tool in the hands of the t
December 26th, 2007
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When my mother got a promotion at her job, she had new office hours that lasted much longer than my school day. I heard my parents talking about how to handle this problem. They found the solution in an educational after-school program.
Putting us in an after-school program meant that sister and I had to go directly from one class to another after the school day ended. The program’s promotional materials said it would use ‘fun’ activities and ‘innovative’ teaching methods to make the best use of the time. I thought that meant that a teacher would provide homework, and we would copy it. This is exactly what happened most of the time, but we didn’t tell our parents that there were no fun or innovative approaches at the program. It wouldn’t have helped, and they would just move us to a class that would actually make us DO some homework.
I was mostly bored in the classes. I didn’t want to spend a whole afternoon with the same books I had been seeing all day in school. I was a child, though, and I didn’t have any choice about it. It would have been hard to say anything anyway, since all the adults were always telling me that my mother’s salary increase would allow the family to buy a great big new TV or video game.
One day, my sister decided to make some wave. She had had enough studying, and she just refused to go to the after-school program. My parents finally got the idea that something was wrong, and shortly after her rebellion, the put us in a much better educational after-school program. This one was brighter and more fun somehow. They offered us interesting games and actually had a computer we could use. Each one of us had the chance to do something on the PC. We also managed to finish our homework really fast, even though it had to be completed by us alone, because once we had finished, we could play. The program offered acting classes, painting, games, and speech. We spent hours painting and laughing at silly jokes. The after-school program really became the highlight of our day, and I began to look forward to going there.
Now, when I need to get a job and leave my children in a safe place until I return, I know how important finding a really good after-school program can be. Ironically, I’ll be the one looking for an educational after-school program, and it will be one that offers fun in addition to ‘educational’ activities.
December 24th, 2007
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