مقالات

At American School of Creative Science - Maliha Road, we do our utmost to draw out our students’ best academic performance. But we can’t achieve this without the full support of their parents. 

As one of the best American schools in Sharjah, we regularly involve parents in academic and extracurricular activities like reading programs, special projects, and campus events. Moreover, parents and teachers keep in touch through our official collaborative platform, the Parent Teacher Association. Our PTA meetings allow the school and parents to directly interact and exchange various ideas about improving the educational environment for students. 

Parents have an even more important role to play for their school-going children at home. Studies show that students retain school lessons better if parents go over what their children are learning with them and give them opportunities to practice their knowledge. In addition to this, parents who set time aside to read aloud with their children greatly contribute to their appreciation of vocabulary and language structure, which manifests in their improved writing abilities. 

Active parents also set asides some one-on-one time with their children to help them discover and understand their learning style. If they observe that their child is a visual learner, they teach them through pictures, videos, or making tables and charts. If their child is an auditory learner, then songs and rhymes may help their child's retain key concepts. Children who learn through tactile experiences can be encouraged to building models or work with clay. While students have the benefit of individualized attention and different learning modalities at school too, a child's comfort with their learning style empowers them to take charge of their education and builds their ability to master even difficult subjects independently.

Active parents also take the opportunity to teach their children the real-life applications of what they learn at school. When cooking together, parents can ask their children to measure out the ingredients required in a recipe. Or they can encourage children to use their chemistry concepts to figure out how to clean a stubborn stain. Instead of pouring information into their heads, having these give-and-take conversations where children's ideas are heard makes for thinking, inquisitive students at school. 

Tailoring the home surroundings and schedule to support learning is another way active parents reinforce teachers’ efforts to develop their children’s skills and knowledge. By keeping TV time to a minimum, they give their children the opportunity to develop other interests and explore on their own. Unstructured time with books, toys, arts and crafts, or friends allows children to learn how to be in charge of their agenda. 

Active parents also know not to overschedule their children. A child who has to race to finish their homework, then to make it to tennis practice and then hurry home in time for extra tuitions will derive little joy — or a love for what they're learning — and may burnout. Kids need downtime as much as any adult and activities they don't enjoy should be cut from their schedule to make time to enjoy being a kid.