In the new semester, stop telling your children to \”listen carefully\” and teach them how to do it.

The child is in elementary school. When we send our children to school, we always ask them to \”listen carefully\”, and the children will cooperate and say \”yes\”; when we pick up the children from school, we will also ask them if they are serious about class, and the children will obediently say \”seriously\”. In fact, parents all know that the biggest role of these conversations is to make parents feel at ease, but they have little effect on children\’s ability to \”listen carefully\”. Because such instructions are too general, children need specific requirements and methods that can be implemented. Requirements that fail to clearly guide behavior are all nonsense for first graders. We need to make it clear to our children what exactly they need to do by \”listening carefully\” and how to do it. The core of listening carefully is active learning. Children actively want to learn and understand, rather than waiting for the teacher to chase and feed them. In this way, children will naturally listen carefully in class. Therefore, we can develop specific requirements around active learning so that children can achieve the effect of listening carefully. The first step in active learning is to clarify learning goals. Figure out, which unit and lesson should I study in this class? What is the topic of study? Only when you have a goal can you have focus in your eyes and be targeted. The second step of active learning is to follow the teacher\’s instructions. I listen to what the teacher says; I do what the teacher asks me to do; when I encounter something I don’t understand, I raise my hand to ask, or mark it, and ask the teacher, classmates, and parents after class. In short, I need to understand what I don’t understand. How to do it specifically? I listened to what the teacher said and just followed the teacher\’s lead with my attention. When the teacher tells me which page to open in the textbook, I will open it immediately; when the teacher tells me which paragraph to read, I will read it immediately; when the teacher tells me to do the question, I will do it immediately; when the teacher tells me what is the key point, I will immediately mark it. Come out and remember the key points. The third step of active learning is to seize the breaks in class. When the teacher is writing on the blackboard or asking students to answer questions, think and remember. When the teacher is writing on the blackboard, he stares at the blackboard and reads the words written by the teacher. Quickly recall and review in your mind what you just learned based on the words written by the teacher. Recall in your mind, mark the place where you are stuck, and listen to the lecture with questions to see if the teacher will continue to talk in subsequent lectures. I didn’t mention it, so I’ll try to figure it out after class. When other students answer questions, they are also thinking in their hearts to see if their answers are different from those of their classmates. Listen carefully to the teacher\’s comments, compare whether your own ideas are the same as the teacher\’s, and constantly correct your understanding. The fourth step of active learning is to think ahead on the premise of understanding the current content. Children do not wait for the teacher to feed them in class, but run on their own initiative. When faced with classroom topics, before the teacher explains it, the children try to understand and think on their own: What does this mean? Why is this happening? What\’s the use? When the teacher explains, compare your own understanding and speculation. If you are different from the teacher, focus on recording it, and carefully reflect on and remember it. Continuously memorize the newly learned content in your mind quickly. After you become proficient, predict what the teacher will say next and test your predictions. Throughout the class, we constantly think ahead – confirm, compare – reflect, constantly deepening our impression of the learning content and reducing the pressure on memory. Take the initiative to learn the fifth step and don’t do anything irrelevant to class. Follow the class with eyes and earsWhen the teacher leaves, he doesn’t talk to his classmates, he doesn’t make small moves, and he doesn’t stay in a daze. A classroom with active learning is a classroom that listens carefully and is an efficient classroom. If you want your children to listen carefully, you must teach them to learn actively in class.