Homeschooling 2.0 - Another Job for Mom and Dad!

Homeschooling 2.0

The topic is still in the bones. The first Covid 19 wave was rolled over us in the spring and fathers and mothers suddenly have to answer in addition to their parental and professional duties as teachers for their children at home. After a few weeks of feeling normality, the whole thing starts again.

Change lessons and renewed school closings

After the numbers of the new infections are currently increasing again, some schools have already decided to carry out change lessons - i. e. Weekly alternating lessons for the individual classes. In some cases, entire classes are sent home again or the schools are temporarily closed.

What is the sentence of the Pythagoras again? And when exactly do you use the prepositional pronoun?          
Such questions are just a few of many challenges that you, as parents, have to ask yourself again after a short phase of breathing. Your own professional duties must be coordinated overnight, there are overlaps and conflicts in private and professional life and puts them under massive pressure.

famplus would like to give you a few suggestions that you and your child can use to make everyday life more structured and relaxed in this special time.       

Tips for a successful school day at home

Create a good working atmosphere
Your child should learn one for learning fixed place have enough space, light and a certain order. If you work in the home office yourself, you should look for a job where you can work relaxed and calmly and still have a look at your child from time to time. Helpful rule: work items are not toys! 

Set up and test the technology
Many schools judge Online portals (e. g. Mebis) as Learning platform where the teachers upload the learning documents, access the children, edit tasks and provide them with edited again. If such a platform is also set up for your child, we recommend that you try out the functions of the tool together with the child and best convert the basics such as converting document into a PDF, uploading document, calling a link, creating a folder, etc. In this way, you can prevent frequent interruptions during learning and also work yourself.

Set fixed structures with sufficient breaks
Depending on the age of the child, it still has to learn to structure yourself alone and is particularly dependent on your support. Arrange together with your child fixed learning times . In the morning, at noon - in the evening - depending on when it can be learned best. Here it can be very helpful to write a schedule.     
In any case, think of sufficient Pauses . If you notice that the concentration is subsided, a few minutes can Movement often work wonders.  In addition, it is also allowed Exceptions give. In some situations (for example with pubescent children), the opposite of the hoped -for structure often causes too rigid rules.     

Develop and reward individual stages
For younger students are small learning goals very helpful. It is also important that you discuss what you can do with the child in advance. Can it disturb them or should the questions only be asked at the end of all tasks? Should a sibling to be asked first?
If the tasks have been done as a small motivation, one Reward (e. g. A joint handicraft campaign or a film evening).        

Enable exchange with classmates
What the children lack at home is the direct exchange with peers, since the children are more based on their peergoups and less on the adults. This exchange is of great importance for a successful learning process. If it is possible for you, make sure that your child can also get in touch with classmates during learning. The social networks offer different platforms here.

Communicate with the teachers
Do not be afraid of it, in the event of difficulties or if you feel that the learning workload is too high to contact your child's teacher. Ask the teachers that the learning documents are there in good time (for example on the evening before at 7 p. m.) so that they can still print them out and see through them.

organize "temporary teachers"
Many parents have certainly already had the experience that learning with “strangers” often works better. There are no previous conflicts and no strong emotional bond with the person who transmits the tasks and criticizes any errors. If there is already a childcare person (babysitter, rental company, etc.) in your household, speak to this and commit it as a "temporary teacher". Another option would be that you take turns with another family and take over the homeschooling for their child and in return your child "add to external care on another day

Ripe for voluntary support from students
If the time is missing to give the child tutoring or simply not and simply the own knowledge is not enough to help your child, you can fall back on the help of volunteer students. The non -profit organization Corona school offers a platform for pupils where you can use video tutoring of over 9,500 registered students-in all subjects and for all types of school.

Helpful and interesting pages and platforms for school children

Schlatdino. com  (Learning platform for children from preschoolers) 

Primary school king  (Free worksheets for primary school. Also suitable for preschool children) 

House of little researchers  (Experiments for children to imitate) 

Geolino  (Experiments and knowledge) 

ARD Alpha Schul TV  (Films on different learning content) 

SWR Planet School (Videos on various topics such as languages, history, culture) 

Learnattack. de  (Free learning videos and interactive exercises) 

Anton. app/de  (All important topics from school free of charge to the curriculum) 

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