Help children to get the first place

Author: Liu Yanhong, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Nine methods to cultivate children's learning ability and overcome learning obstacles. Most parents believe that children with high intelligence will definitely perform well academically. However, in real life, we often see the phenomenon of "bright children failing to achieve good grades." So, what is the reason behind this? Research by domestic and international education experts shows that what determines a child's academic performance is not intelligence, but learning ability! Only children with strong learning abilities can achieve good results. Therefore, if a child has poor learning ability or learning difficulties, it will be difficult for them to perform well academically. According to statistics from authoritative education departments, most students in China suffer from learning difficulties to some extent: at the same time, approximately 18–30% of students have significant learning difficulties. This is the reason why "bright children fail to achieve good grades." Associate Professor Liu Yanhong, an education expert from Beijing Normal University, has combined years of professional research and educational experience to summarize a set of educational methods aimed at helping children comprehensively overcome learning difficulties and cultivate their learning abilities. Help Your Child Succeed in Exams guides parents and teachers to help children improve and enhance their attention, memory, as well as their abilities in reading, writing, calculation, movement, emotions, confidence, and psychology, enabling your child to achieve good grades!
What kind of child can achieve good grades? The three basic elements—information processing skills and thinking skills—form a solid pyramid, which is the guarantee for any child's academic success. At the same time, once these abilities are formed, they will accompany a person throughout their life and determine their future. The basic elements provide a support system for all learning; while completing learning tasks, the content depends on information processing skills, and certain learning content is closely related to thinking skills. For example, when doing math homework, information processing skills are first needed to read or understand the problems; thinking skills are also required to understand the problem-solving process and the sequence of each step. During calculations, information processing skills are needed to add, subtract, multiply, or divide groups of numbers according to calculation principles. This process also relies on information processing skills; finally, basic elements are needed to help children persist in completing this learning task. The lack of these learning skills can lead to poor academic performance in children, and poor academic performance, in turn, can further hinder the development of these skills. For example, if a child has insufficient abilities in one or more areas of visual information processing, auditory information processing, or motor skills, combined with attention and impulse control issues, it can lead to emotional and behavioral problems in children, as well as damage their self-confidence. Emotional, behavioral, and self-confidence issues will further affect the child's academic performance. Therefore, having a balanced, stable, and unified learning ability pyramid is the foundation for every child's academic success: Only by educating children according to the guidance of the "Learning Brick Pyramid" can family education truly become scientific and avoid the developmental imbalance caused by the unnatural education of "genius children" that leads to over-pushing.