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TOP TIPS FOR SUPERVISING YOUR CHILD’S KUMON STUDY AT HOME

Kumon students are encouraged to develop their ability to self-learn, to think, to work out the answers for themselves.

Through this approach, their learning will be memorable, the achievement feels powerful and the sense of pride is motivational. That doesn’t mean that children don’t need supervision when completing their Kumon study at home. Here are our top tips for supervising studying at home:

• Try to create a good learning environment for your child to study in, with a suitable seat and table for their height.

• Try to be in the same room as them while they are working. It will indicate to them that “I’m interested in what you are doing”.

• Nurture a positive approach to their study.

• Encourage them to read the instructions and use the examples on the page. The worksheets are designed to teach the child, by building on the knowledge and practice from earlier sheets.

• If necessary, help them to read the worksheet instructions and examples, but try not to do any of the work for them. Working things out for ourselves, based on what we already know is fundamental to learning.

• If it’s helpful to them, have them describe to you what they correctly completed on an earlier worksheet, to help them to focus again.

• If you are nearby and supervising, you will have more opportunity to mark their worksheets for them so that they can make any corrections quickly, while it is still fresh in their mind.

Feeding back to your child after marking their worksheets

At Kumon, we focus on the positives and look to be rewarding every page with a big, red circle and ‘100%’. We indicate any corrections to be made with small circles on the question. Mike can show you how to mark your child’s work and our booklet A Guide for Parents will provide you with more in-depth guidance.

We encourage students to have a go! Therefore, we must recognise the value of learning from our mistakes. We don’t see corrections that need to be made as errors, but the chance to pause and think deeply. It is ultimately most important that the child gets to experience the sense of learning and the satisfaction of achieving 100%.

So, where possible, we would encourage you to be in the same room, ideally marking their work for them quickly so that they can then set to work to make the necessary corrections while their brain is still engaged in the task.

Speak to Mike about how you can use positive language that focuses on the good work they achieved, while you encourage your child to focus their attention once again and make any corrections that are needed.

Here are some examples;

“I like the way that you have written so clearly and neatly in the boxes here, but don’t forget you need to remember to be clear in all the answers on the page too, so that we can read your answers”

“It looks as if you have understood everything up until question 6. Perhaps you got distracted and lost your concentration? Look again and see if you can work out how to fix it.”