What is most helpful is identifying our strengths and building on them.
Most of the time we can be really focused on our negative aspects and what we are not doing, or achieving. In terms of the performance literature we know that this isn’t a helpful approach. What is most helpful is identifying our strengths and building on them.
Feeling stressed changes our thinking. This is important to remember when we are trying to help students who are under pressure.
Parents can help by:
How can parents best support their children during exams?
▪Seek to understand your child’s problems
▪Your understanding of their problems enables your child’s understanding of their problems.
▪By listening we create a ‘thinking environment’.
▪By listening you enable them to think for themselves.
▪By enabling them to think for themselves you build their confidence.
