| You send your child to school and the teachers | | | | to ensure that teachers are teaching well. |
| teach them. If that is what you think, you could | | | | So is your child learning nothing ? Well many |
| be way wrong ! | | | | parents today find out by setting their children |
| While most teachers are good at presenting | | | | their own school tests - as by using Math Sheets |
| information to a class, learning happens ONLY if | | | | that come with the answers. It can be made an |
| kids actually want to learn. Teachers may have | | | | easy fun 5-minute daily game "let's play our 'my |
| little time for individual work, and you can lead a | | | | school test' game". |
| horse to water but you can't make it drink. | | | | Not only will you then know that your child is |
| And in many schoolrooms today a majority of | | | | learning, but you should find that you showing a |
| the class see learning as not cool, with kids trying | | | | little regular interest in their learning will increase |
| hard to not learn ! | | | | their learning motivation strongly. |
| You may think that the school will tell you if your | | | | You can stick to maths sheets only, or can vary |
| child is not learning, but you will probably be way | | | | your mini-school-test to science or other subjects |
| wrong there. | | | | using questions from their schoolbooks. Just keep |
| School funding generally depends on the school | | | | it brief so it does not become a chore for them. |
| saying how good they are at teaching children, so | | | | If you show a little regular interest in your child's |
| often they will say that all kids are doing fine even | | | | learning then they will want to learn, and will not |
| when many are learning nothing. | | | | follow anti-learning classmates. |
| You may think that school inspectors will ensure | | | | Then when the school says that your child is |
| that kids are learning well, but NO their job is only | | | | doing fine, it will happen to actually be the truth! |