We are delighted to invite you to participate in our upcoming parent-teacher conferences scheduled from May 13th to May 24th. This is a great opportunity to collaborate with our teaching staff and discuss your child’s progress and future learning strategies.
Here’s How to Schedule Your Conference
Choose Your Child’s Teacher Below Browse through the profiles listed below. Each profile includes a photo of the teacher, the subjects they teach, and available time slots. Click on the “Schedule” button next to the teacher you wish to meet to proceed.
Schedule Your Conference After selecting a teacher, choose a time that works best for you. Once selected, you’ll be prompted to confirm your appointment details.
Mark Your Calendar Remember to mark the confirmed date and time in your calendar. You will also receive an automatic email confirmation with the details of your appointment.
Send Progress Reports to Teacher If you have specific progress reports or examples of your child’s work that you’d like the teacher to review, please submit these documents via the platform during the booking process.
Prepare for the Conference With the reports sent and the meeting scheduled, take some time to think about any questions or topics you wish to discuss. This preparation will help make the conference as productive and informative as possible.
Click your child’s teacher to schedule your parent teacher conference now!
We look forward to seeing you and working together to support your child’s learning and development. Thank you for your active involvement and commitment to your child’s education!
Feeling the weight of balancing school and activities?
Staying organized?
Wishing you had more time and resources to help your child excel in their studies?
Wondering how to keep your child motivated and engaged in their learning journey?
You’re not alone. I’ve been there. Growing up, I faced the same challenges, feeling torn between two worlds and often feeling the pressure to excel. But what if there was a way to bridge these worlds and empower our children to reach their fullest potential?
Introducing: Bridging Dreams Seminar
This seminar is specially designed to address these challenges and more. We’ve crafted a curriculum that not only motivates your child but also equips you, the parent, with tools and strategies to support them.
What’s In It For Your Child?
Engaging sessions that reignite their passion for learning.
Strategies to stay motivated and overcome academic challenges.
A chance to connect with peers facing similar challenges.
Event Details
Date: Saturday, November 11th
For 2nd – 5th Graders: 9:30am – 10:30am
For 6th – 9th Graders: 11am – 12pm
Venue: Zoom (Link will be provided upon registration)
Spots: Hurry! Only 50 spots available for each session.
Price: Absolutely Free!
A Personal Note
This seminar is close to my heart. I remember the challenges, the confusion, and the pressure. But I also remember the dreams, the aspirations, and the potential. This is our chance to ensure the next generation doesn’t just dream but thrives. Let’s bridge their dreams and nurture their potential together.
Here at Wholesome Learning, we strive to give your child the confidence to overcome their challenges in English through developing skills around critical reading & writing.
A lot of tutoring centers focus on preparing students for testing to assess their knowledge. But the real world doesn’t function on exams. It functions based on projects. Project based learning helps your child gain real-world skills they will use in college, work, and their every day lives.
When you hear ‘project based learning’ you may have flashbacks of arts and crafts full of glue sticks, paperboard, and tons of hands-on parental supervision requiring more of your time and effort. Never fear because we’re not talking about that kind of project!
When we say project based learning today we don’t just mean doing projects. We mean real-world, hands-on opportunities for children to apply their education to everyday problems. Rather than just a ‘dessert project’ that adds to in-class learning, PBL is the main course of the unit.
Let us explain what we mean by project based learning, and why it’s so important to education, at all levels.
The old way of education and learning
Odds are, when you went through school you remember memorizing facts, following the teacher’s direction, and taking paper-based exams. However, education has evolved from there. Nowadays, students can actively participate in learning by tackling real-world problems, questions, or scenarios.
Instead of the teacher imposing ideas on students, project based learning allows students to learn from their own hands-on experience. With project based learning, students can gain a deeper understanding of a topic by solving real-world challenges over a longer period of time.
What is project-based learning?
Project based learning (PBL) is a teaching method where students engage directly with the learning by pursuing real-world projects. PBL is typically a long-term project where students can manage their own time and is typically a group effort that can range from small groups to an entire class. It can take many forms, including meaningful work like water quality projects, community development, sustainability efforts, and more. The possibilities are endless but PBL is most effective when it is both personally meaningful to the students and accomplishes a learning objective.
Of course, traditional learning is still important as students will need to apply what they learn in the classroom to real-world projects. And students may bring in ideas from multiple disciplines to solve the problem. Additionally, unlike in traditional education, instead of measuring a student’s success solely on exams and rote memorization, with PBL the emphasis is on how students apply learning to the real world.
In PBL, trial and error is the main teacher while the instructor is there to facilitate and help children reach their potential. Plus, it’s not just for older students. PBL can support all levels of education, including elementary school, middle school, high school, and college.
Project based learning helps students solve unstructured problems creatively while collaborating and communicating with others
PBL is a collaborative process, and students will learn to do group work that requires creativity, communication, and innovation. Students will learn to work in groups while gaining independence from the teacher.
Furthermore, students will need experience collaborating and communicating well with others for their future education and civic life, and it may even inspire a future career. For instance, students may participate in a moot court, preparing arguments for an actual case. Or they may examine their environmental footprint, build a student farm, or even design an app.
Finally, students may need to present the final product or presentation to a real audience at the completion of the project, allowing them to practice their communication and public speaking skills.
Project based learning helps students get more engaged and interested about the material
PBL encourages students to take a hands-on approach to their education, putting them in the driver’s seat. If it scares you to give that responsibility to your kid, put yourself in their shoes. They want to take ownership, and when they do, they are more likely to become independent, grow their confidence, and ultimately, find success. Furthermore, when students have ownership over their education their attitude towards learning changes, and they become more engaged with the material.
Project based learning supports success on standardized testing and advanced placement exams
Even though traditional examinations are not the focus of PBL, schools that participate in PBL have been known to raise their average test scores. Studies from Lucas Education Research have found that students in PBL classes outperform students in traditional classes when it comes to standardized exams and AP tests. Part of the reason for this is that when working on a real-world project, students have to focus on critical thinking skills; they beyond just memorizing information to critically applying it. this makes them overall better thinkers and better at answering questions, including on standardized testing.
Project based learning supports deeper learning
To solve a real-world issue, students will need to bring in learning from multiple disciplines and will need to demonstrate understanding beyond rote memorization. Therefore, they often retain skills and concepts better than when simply tested on the material. Furthermore, students can advance more quickly when working on a project because the sky is the limit. Thus, students can work on projects that appropriately challenge them to engage in deeper learning.
Try PBL education now
You may be wondering why you didn’t do more project based learning in school. Well, it’s not too late to inspire your child to get started. Especially if your child is struggling with Math or English, project based learning may be a good option to help support their deeper learning. We offer English and Math tutoring with project based learning. Schedule your child’s FREE Math & English evaluation now to learn more and see if PBL may be appropriate to advance your child’s education.
Are some children born naturally good at math and English while others are born bad at it?? Or is being good or bad at something based on the amount of effort and practice we put into it?
How you answer those two questions is a sign of whether you have a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. And, how we think about our strengths and weaknesses can have a huge impact on success, and for children, that can impact their school performance, attitudes, and potential futures.
A child with a fixed mindset will believe they cannot change and that mistakes are detrimental to their progress. However, a child with a growth mindset will believe that they can grow with some hard work and that mistakes are a learning opportunity. Developing a growth mindset in your child can help them overcome obstacles, be more prone to goal setting, and ultimately accomplish more in their education.
The Difference Between a Growth Mindset Vs. Fixed Mindset
Have you ever wondered why some children seek out challenges, while others simply avoid failure? This is a major difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
A fixed mindset looks at human traits as carved in stone, unable to evolve. So, they simply try to avoid mistakes. However, a growth mindset views human traits as evolving qualities that can constantly change. People with a growth mindset have a willingness to learn, take on challenges, and typically end up reaching higher achievements.
Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset
I can’t do this
I can’t do this… yet
I’m not good enough
My best is good enough
Jealous of other’s success
Inspired by other’s success
Avoids challenges
Embraces challenges
Wants to prove themselves
Embraces challenges
Wants to prove themselves
Wants to improve themselves
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What Is a Growth Mindset?
A growth mindset includes the understanding that the talents we’re born with are just the beginning, and that true talents and personality develop from there.
But it’s more than just a belief in growth and improvement; a growth mindset is about viewing mistakes as learning opportunities. People with a growth mindset believe that their abilities aren’t set in stone, and thus they aren’t capped by anything other than their own willingness to learn and grow.
But our mindsets aren’t set in stone. People can shift from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset and vice versa. You can help your child shift towards a growth mindset and become more receptive to goal setting and tutoring.
3 Ways to Shift Your Child Towards a Growth Mindset
Shifting your child to a growth mindset can help them achieve more not only in their education but also in life.
Of course, the first step to helping your child have a growth mindset is to develop one yourself. You set the example for them, and you must first believe that your child can grow and change, no matter how ‘fixed’ they seem in certain habits.
Additionally, here are three things you can do to encourage your child to develop a growth mindset.
Encourage Journaling
Journaling is a powerful tool for growth. It can increase your child’s writing and communication skills, creativity, and encourage goal setting and accountability.
You may also want to start a journal, which will help you to not only reap the benefits of journaling yourself but also be an accountability buddy with your child. That way, you can talk with them about the ups and downs of journaling and your motivation to write.
Give praise based on the process
A lot of parents like to praise their kids, but constant praise is not helpful to developing a growth mindset. The best praise you can give your child is process praise, which is based on the hard work that led to an outcome. It’s much more sincere than ‘good job’ and your child will understand why they deserve genuine praise.
Try using one of these phrases, next time you want to give process praise: • “You worked really hard for this and look what you accomplished.” • “I noticed you’ve been practicing a lot lately. Look how much you’ve improved!” • “I love that you didn’t give up until you understood.” • “You look very happy and proud of yourself.”
The idea with giving process praise is that you are showing your child what they did to achieve a certain outcome so they can repeat it in the future.
Provide books and movies with a growth mindset
Finally, offer role models for your child through books, movies, and stories to inspire them. With your younger children, you can make story time a part of daily bedtime and use it to share stories of growth, enjoying mistakes, and perseverance. Help your children identify what the characters did to change and grow.
For older kids, graphic novels and even some TV shows can show people overcoming obstacles, making good decisions, and managing the ups and downs of relationships. Finally, for family movie night, select a movie with a theme like resilience or managing emotions. Afterward, have a family discussion about what you learned.
A Growth Mindset Works
My own story is evidence that the growth mindset works. For years, I was stuck in a fixed mindset, struggling with my education, until I met two professors in college who changed everything for me. About a decade ago I changed my mindset, and suddenly discovered better grades, more learning, and success. Now, I want to help more children find a growth mindset sooner in life because I know how it feels to be stuck in a fixed mindset, and I know how life-changing a growth mindset can be. So, I offer Math and English tutoring to help your child develop a growth mindset.
Schedule a Free Evaluation
Here at Wholesome Learning, we focus on inspiring your child with a growth mindset, so that together, we can grow our confidence to the next level! Schedule your child’s FREE Math & English evaluation now to get your child growing!
