During the online class, how parents can help their children with homework (2) - breaking the "knowledge curse"

In the previous article, it was mentioned that because the child's cognitive level, comprehension ability, way of thinking, etc. are still in their infancy, the underlying information to support learning is seriously insufficient, and for parents, extremely simple things are difficult for children.

Therefore, when parents are tutoring their children, the first thing to do is to return themselves to zero and give their children the greatest patience.

With the patient support of parents, children can gain the motivation, courage and confidence to continue to move forward.

In addition to patience, what parents need to do is to break the "knowledge curse".

Psychologists define the "knowledge curse": once we know something, we can't imagine what it looks like in the eyes of the unknown, and we misjudge that it will take him longer to figure it out.

The typical symptom of a person who has been hit by this spell is that he has such a mantra: This is very simple, what is so difficult? What's there to talk about? What's not to understand?

Parents are often affected by this spell when tutoring their children:

Guo, isn't it just a jade in the box, such a simple word, you can't write it correctly;

15 minus 7, so simple, you can all miscalculate;

Isn't this the most basic multiplication recipe, you still won't;

This sentence, what do you like? How many times have you learned, and you still write it wrong;

……

When parents are very familiar with a certain knowledge point, they often do not realize that the reason why they are so familiar with this aspect is because they have undergone long-term and extensive training, and they have forgotten that they have written and scrubbed, broken their fingers, scratched their ears and scratched their cheeks, and ignored that children have not yet experienced such exercises as we do.

Fortunately, being under the spell of knowledge is not a bad thing in itself, indicating that our knowledge system has been upgraded.

But in order to effectively tutor children and help children achieve good results on the road to learning, parents need to break this spell.

There are three ways to start.

First of all, parents should read their children's teaching materials and understand what their children have learned.

Parents of lower graders may say, "There's nothing to understand about this, it's something you can understand at a glance." ”

In fact, parents reading textbooks is not to re-learn these knowledge like children, but to figure out the logical principles within this knowledge, which aspect of their thinking and ability to cultivate.

In order to be aware of the situation when tutoring children to learn.

For example, when children learn Chinese and English, texts, poems, words, etc. are indispensable to the recitation link.

When reciting, the child cannot understand the logic and structure contained in the article, words and sentences, etc., resulting in the child's memorization, rote memorization, word by word.

Carry it for dozens of minutes, forget it, forget it.

Neither efficiency nor results are ideal, taking time and having little effect.

Parents, on the other hand, have the ability to understand the logic and structure implicit in these contents.

After understanding, parents can help the child straighten out the logic, help the child to connect these contents, and the child can quickly recite eight or nine inseparable. The rest of the minutiae, a little time, you can get it done.

This not only improves efficiency, but also allows children to experience a sense of accomplishment, killing two birds with one stone.

It's like digging with a shovel, a shovel, a shovel, a shovel, and an excavator, and the efficiency of the two is not an order of magnitude.

Secondly: when parents tutor their children, they take the initiative to reduce their cognitive level to find blind spots in their children's learning.

Because of the asymmetry of information and understanding, parents often ignore some basic knowledge, or see that their children have made mistakes in some places, and easily judge them as careless, not careful, and not serious.

This will miss your child's blind spots or places of incomprehension.

If the child is in a certain place and makes frequent mistakes, it must not be simple carelessness, but there is a certain basic knowledge that has not been fully mastered.

For example, some children, who are in the fifth grade, have a high rate of error in calculations.

This requires parents to lower their own level and listen patiently and carefully to their children's interpretation of these mistakes.

From the child's description, follow the clues to find out where the child's grasp is not firm, it turns out that the habit of marking the carry and the debit is not formed, so that it is often wrong when carrying and borrowing.

Finally, when parents tutor their children, they should be in-depth and simple, use the language and methods that the children understand, and use figurative things to guide the children to complete abstract thinking.

For example, I once tutored a child who had just started learning multiplication and couldn't understand the meaning and algorithm of multiplication for a while and a half, but he understood the principle of addition.

At this time, I used his knowledge of addition to guide him to disassemble multiplication into addition, find out the law, and then switch back to multiplication.

Under the guidance, the child overcame this difficulty by relying on his own ability, mastered the knowledge points, turned frustration into a sense of achievement, and maintained his interest in learning.

There are many such methods, for example, some children, when learning the reading of water and electricity and cost calculation, can not relate the two, you can take the child to actually observe, experience, so as to help children understand.

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