Parents as Learning Coaches
“Coaching is 90% attitude and 10% technique.”
Do you find your children’s learning attention span short? Are their thoughts constantly wandering off? This two-session workshop aims to help parents identify your children’s strengths, types of intelligences and learning styles to maximise learning. Parents will learn and acquire the necessary skills that provide a more in-depth help in growing their children’s love for learning. Using experiential activities, small group discussions, demonstrations, case studies and personal reflection, parents will also explore creating a conducive home environment for learning and working in partnership with the school and the community.
Key Areas Covered:
- Understanding Multiple Intelligences
- What is difficult for children in their learning
- Possible reasons for their difficulty
- How children cope when faced with difficulties in their learning
- Understanding the needs of the children
- Expectations of parents and children and how to be realistic
- Understanding parents’ own needs
Parents will Take Home Strategies on:
- How to render emotional support
- Ways parents can manage one’s emotions like anxiety and frustrations
- Identifying the children’s strengths; types of intelligences; learning styles; and how parents can use these to maximise learning
- Creating a conducive home environment for learning
- Working in partnership with school and community resources
- How parents can transfer a joy for learning in their children
Duration:
2 sessions of 4 hr each
Targeted Audience:
Parents of children & teens