Every year we speak to thousands of parents, and they always have questions.
关于他们如何在整个学年中最好地支持孩子和青少年的问题，帮助他们使其成为迄今为止最好的学年，并允许他们的孩子充分发挥潜力！
在本文中，我们将分享3个超级简单的策略，您可以用作父母，与您的孩子一起工作，并帮助他们在今年成为迄今为止最好的学年！
步骤1：就年度目标进行对话
步骤2：帮助您的孩子管理分心
步骤3：鼓励他们教你
Step 1: Have a Conversation With Your Child About Their Yearly Goals
This first step is so simple!
Just sit down with your child and have a conversation with them about their goals for the current school year.
Often we see students just cruising through the school year and they tend to not have well-articulated goals.
这样做的原因是，学生通常还没有达到成熟程度，他们能够通过如何设定目标有效地思考。
This is where you come in and help your child set their goals and in giving support to achieving them!
行动点：
步骤1：询问“今年将是什么？”
与您的孩子坐下来对话，问他们：“今年将是什么？”and get them to talk through what that might look like!
或者，您可以问他们，回顾上一年，“What would have made last year a successful one?”.
Step 2: Ask clarifying questions
您可能需要在这里挖一点！
通常，学生说他们的目标是“在学校做得好”，但是这实际上意味着什么？是特定的标记还是ATAR？这是特定数量的改进吗？
Ask clarifying questions to tease this specificity out and help them articulate what their goal actually is.
A really great thing to do while you’re having this conversation with your child is to make sure you’re not just focusing on academics.
So, talk about what your child’s goals at school look like, but also about extra-curricular activities, hobbies and things they love to do outside of school!
步骤3：写下来！
This is the critical step – get your child to write their goals down!
Writing these goals down takes it out of your child’s head and your head and makes them more concrete.
它还使您的孩子能够拥有自己的目标并实现学年的目标。
This is important because it gives students some direction. They know where they want to go, and this allows them to propel forward and take action on this!
步骤2：帮助您的孩子管理分心
The second thing you can do to help your child have their best school year yet, is to help them to manage distractions.
这可能是与您的孩子一起做的刺耳的主题和挑战性的事情，但至关重要。
作为父母，您已经知道影响手机，互联网和社交媒体对孩子的注意力和关注点。
现实是，您是对的，每当您的孩子分心他们所做的工作时，it takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back on track and focused on the work in front of them.
没错，23分钟15秒！
由于花费大量时间，对孩子发挥全部潜力的最大挑战之一就是管理这些干扰！
The truth is that we all have a limited amount of willpower to resist distractions during our day. It’s just like fuel, as the day goes on, we run lower and lower in that fuel.
因此，当您的孩子放学回家时，他们的意志力已经很低。
因此,这里的挑战是,学生一般aren’t disciplined enough or have sufficient willpower in the tank to help them make good decisions about responding to distractions by the end of the day.
So, a critical thing you can do to help your child is to support them in identifying how they can build a system that will help them reduce or manage these distractions and create a distraction-free study zone at home.
行动点：
步骤1：关于管理手机的对话
The best thing to do here is have a conversation with your child about how you able to help them manage their phone use while they’re studying.
这可能意味着他们在学习时自愿为您提供手机，或者关闭手机并将其放在另一个房间中。
Step 2: Installing apps to help manage distractions
为了管理孩子的计算机和互联网上的干扰，可以使用一些不同的应用程序来阻止某些站点的特定时间。
如果您有Mac，可以使用SelfControl!
SelfControl is an app that blocks your access to particular sites for a particular period of time.
如果您正在使用Windows，则可以使用冷火鸡which does the same thing!
This step is all about being intentional about what websites your child needs to access on the internet for study and blocking sites like Youtube and Facebook that aren’t necessary during this time.
Step 3: Identify and implement a system for managing distractions
一旦您弄清楚如何支持孩子管理干扰，那么实际实施一个系统就很重要。
因此，而不是您的孩子尝试一下，然后试要在学习时使用这些策略，有一些系统可以正常工作，而无需任何额外的意志力。
To do this, again,sit down and have a conversation with your child about what kind of system can be put in place to make managing distractions an easy process.
记住要与您的孩子进行讨论，并让他们创建自己的想法和策略，而不是强迫他们的事物，让您的孩子对这些决定的所有权感。
步骤3：鼓励他们教你
您可以做的第三件事可以帮助您的孩子拥有最好的学年，但要鼓励他们每天教您！
Now, here’s why:
Most of the time students receive feedback on work and assessments at the wrong time, because they study and prep, do the assessment and then get feedback after the fact.
这无济于事，因为您无法使用该反馈来改变和改进，因为在完成工作之前您不知道它！
为了真正帮助学生改善，我们需要将反馈从事后收到的反馈转移到事实之前。
And when you’re teaching someone, you’re receiving feedback all the time from the person you’re teaching.
Therefore, if you can get your child to teach you the content they’re learning at school, this will help move the feedback loop from after the fact to before.它将帮助他们确定自己所知道的知识，以及在实际进行评估或参加考试之前不知道的知识。
让孩子教给您的另一个真正好处是，这是记住信息的最有力方法之一！
So by having your child teach you, you’re actually helping them to memorise the information they need to know for exams and assessments.不管您相信与否，这将是他们一年四季做的最有效的研究！
那么，您如何鼓励您的孩子教您？
Step 1: Ask Them Over Dinner
这是鼓励您的孩子教您并帮助他们学习学习的一种简单方法。
晚餐期间，您的孩子有一个圈养的观众30分钟，您可以向他们提问，并让他们教您那天在课堂上学到的内容。
Step 2: Ask Them While Driving
Is your car Dad or Mum’s taxi? Always driving your kids to and from school and extracurricular activities?
使其成为您“出租车服务”的条件，当您在渡轮时，他们会教您那天或那一周在课堂上学习的内容。
步骤3：实际问什么！
这里有一些提示，可以帮助您开始对话：
“What was the most challenging thing you learnt today at school?”
“What was the most interesting thing you learnt at school today?”
或者是特定的,如果你知道他们有英语ondays, ask “What did you learn today in English? Tell me about it!”
Now once they’re talking about it, dig deeper and ask questions about what they’re telling you.
鼓励您的孩子教您并帮助您支持他们的另一种策略是实际获取他们的学习笔记的副本，并使用这些副本进行测验！
然后，您可以使用他们的笔记检查他们的答案并给予他们反馈！
Use it as an opportunity for them to teach you and for you to give them some feedback on how they’re going.
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伊莎贝拉·汉利（Isabella Hanley）loves science. She loves science so much she’s making it her career. While completing her Bachelor of Medical Science she is also a Coach and Digital Content Manager at Art of Smart. She is super passionate about sharing her knowledge on surviving the HSC since completing the HSC herself in 2014. In her downtime she enjoys Netflix binging like a pro, singing in the shower and hanging out with her awesome rescue dog, Ruby.
