Fear of failure
"Manage your shivers"
Children with performance anxiety have the fear that something will fail. This controls their thinking and hinders them.
This becomes visible when, for example:
- Examines
- Holding a speech
- Doing homework.
- Making practice material at school.
With the help of training your child can get its self-confidence.
This can be done by:
- To gain positive experiences.
- To learn skills.
- To be able to oversee situations better.
Cito/IEP toets/Route 8
"Manage exams"
Sometimes you see a difference between the test results and the method-bound tests. The reason for this could be:
- Difficulty with this way of testing.
- Tension before testing.
With the help of training, the result of a test score can be improved.
This can be done by:
- Practice with the structure of these types of tests.
- Investigate if your child has mastered all the skills that are being tested.
Learn to learn
"My way of learning"
A training of 8 lessons for groups 7, 8 and the first year that helps effectively to:
- Do your homework on your own.
- Use calendar
- Use Magister.
- Plan homework.
- Gain insight into how to manage homework handy.
- Make homework faster
- Discover your own learning strategies
- Learn idiom.
- Learning and summarizing texts
- Creating mind maps.
- Evaluating tests to get higher grades.
Executive functions
"Effective learning"
When a child has difficulty completing an assignment or does not understand the explanation given by a teacher, it is likely caused by a lack of executive functions.
During the executive functions training we train the following parts:
- Response inhibition
Thinking before acting.
- Working memory
Retaining information in memory while performing other tasks.
- Emotion regulation
Controlling emotions to achieve goals, complete tasks or control behavior
- Sustained attention
Maintaining attention despite distractions, fatigue or boredom.
- Task initiation
Start an assignment without delay. In time and efficiently.
- Planning/prioritization
Making a plan to achieve a goal or complete a task.
Decide what is important and what is not important.
- Organization
Being able to organize things.
- Time management
Estimating how much time you have, organizing it and dealing with deadlines.
- Goal-oriented perseverance
Formulating and achieving goals and not being distracted/deterred.
- Flexibility
Plans can adapt to changing circumstances.
- Metacognition
Understanding how to tackle a problem and self-evaluation.