Bilingual education is the process of teaching kids using two languages. Bilingual education is not simply the process of learning and studying two languages as subjects; this is the way to integrate language into the way students think and recognize. A bilingual education means studying your science, maths, art, and drama lessons in two languages. and here our expert share his views on bilingual education:
We
all want our children to do well – to become something great and lead happy and
healthy lives. Intelligence in a child has its advantages but having a truly
smart kid isn’t all about getting good grades at school. It’s becoming
more and more clear that intelligence is no longer black and white. Using IQ
tests to find out how intelligent someone is has been long thought of as a
measure to how smart someone is academically and a score of over 100 is worn
with a sense of pride. But many studies are fast showing that cognitive and
emotional intelligence are just as varied and important – a brain surgeon and
an artist can therefore ideally be looked at as being on the same level.
The
way parents interact with their child has a huge influence on how a child
develops and how smart they become. Allowing your children to be “life smart”
and preparing them for their path into the independent world is one of the
greatest achievements you can make as a parent. The overall key as a
parent is to focus on the process rather than the intelligence and talent that
a child possesses. In other words, it’s all about the journey and sense of
achievement that needs to be cultivated rather than praise once a child has
completed something. This encourages a growth mindset rather than a fixed
mindset and will help your child understand the importance of the effort
they’ve put in rather than the end goal. Psychiatrist Joe Brewster, believes
that a child should be encouraged to see learning as the process of becoming
better at something, instead of having a fixed mindset of his intelligence. With that in mind, here are just a handful of ways to
encourage your child to be more aware and, in turn, help you to raise smart
kids.
1. How You Respond To Your Child
The
way in which you respond to your child through various situations largely
determines how they assess their range of experiences. For example, if you
react in an indifferent or restrictive way, this could discourage your child
from wanting to try new things and cause them to learn to be too cautious and
therefore limiting their personal experiences. Instead, encourage your child by
asking open-ended questions creating, a space for them to think about actions
and awareness of those around them. If they are misbehaving, then try to change
their perspectives on the situation by getting them to think about how their
actions have affected you and others involved. Smart kids are those that
get the chance to see another point of view and develop their sense of
awareness.
2. Raise Smart Kids By Limiting The Amount
Of Rules
Think
about the rules you put into place and whether any of them are really
necessary. Research has found that the number of family rules affects kids’
creativity. Further studies have found that the most creative architects
in the U.S. were encouraged by their parents to develop their own moral rules
without any restrictive family rules being enforced. The idea is that a child
can develop a sense of right and wrong from sources other than their parents.
This allows them to develop more creative personalities and intelligence. The
author of the study defines creativity as the following:
“Personality
characteristics of creative individuals includes broad intelligence, openness
to experience, aesthetic sensitivity, autonomy in thought and action and the
pursuit of new challenges and solutions, curious, self-assertive, high
achiever, self-critical , self-sufficient, intuitive and empathic, emotional
sensitivity, imagination, ambition and dominance, self-acceptance, dominance,
self-confidence, acceptance of unusual views as their personality
characteristics.”
Enforcing
too many rules curbs a child’s sense of creativity and overall development of
intelligence. Making sure there are less rules gives your child more time to
engage in open-end, free-flowing activities and stops them from being
micromanaged and constantly corrected. Of course, children do need important
rules but limiting the amount will benefit their long-term intellectual growth.
3. Allow Your Kids To Be Bored
Boredom
is usually seen as a negative thing, after all, surely you should be stimulating
your child’s sense of creativity at every opportunity for them to be creative?
Well, boredom isn’t all that bad – it actually helps a child encourage their
ability to think. Quiet reflection is something that adds to a different
perspective and gives the mind space to think up and create activities. Don’t
always feel like you have to find them something to do in case you’re not doing
enough to accommodate their learning. Boredom, in and of itself, is a time for
their brains to develop and become more creative.
4. Let Your Kids See You Doing Smart Stuff
Kids
pick up on all sorts of things, especially your own actions. Learning from
adult behaviour is one of the major ways a child picks up habits and makes
sense of the world. If your child sees you engaged in reading, writing, or
anything creative, it will cause them to imitate you and become smarter in the
process. It’s also important to let your children hear you talk about
achievements from hard work. As I mentioned earlier focusing on intelligent
achievements, both theirs and your own, will give a clear signal that will
create a fixed mindset and a fixed mindset can lead to a fragile and defensive
child in the long-run. Instead, when you speak, emphasize praise for hard work
and focus rather than too much on the end result.
5. Encourage Your Kids To Take Risks And
Fail
Although
we have a natural tendency to protect our children from feeling upset, allowing
your child to take risks and failing will teach them fundamental life skills
from an early age. Without experiencing failure early on, a child can develop
low self-esteem and get discouraged from creating and learning for themselves.
Fear is probably the number one emotion in our lives that can stop us from
taking great actions. If we encourage our children to experience failure when
they are small, the amount of fear they develop will lessen.Teaching a child
that failure is not actually a bad thing is a great life-skill that will allow
them to make smart decisions and learn from life’s ups and downs. At the end of
the day, children need to feel emotions to understand them and protecting your
child from them will only stunt their ability to adapt and make sense of the
world.
6. Make Reading And Music A Part Of Your
Child’s Life
Reading
may be an obvious one to excel your child’s intelligence but not only does it
help them to read but it also develops your child’s appetite for knowledge. It
allows their brain to process situations, creating further perspective and
sparks imagination that can benefit all areas of their life. Their thirst for
knowledge will develop rapidly if exposed to different topics and ideas and
again making connections to the world around them.
Music
can pose so many amazing effects on a child’s brain. Many studies have shown
that getting a child to listen to music not only boosts attention, motivation,
learning and memory skills but also lowers stress. Stress can have a
detrimental effect on how the young brain operates – not something you want at
such a crucial time in development. Learning a musical instrument is also great
as it targets the brain’s proportional thinking and spatial temporal reasoning
so raise smart kids the creative way and pave for well-rounded, life-smart
children.
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