Kids who get their homework done?
Great!
Kids who do well at school?
Fantastic.
Kids who love learning?
The best.
And parents can help their kids to love learning in and of itself.
But why should they?
Motivation and Success
NEPSY: Assessments for improving your child’s learning potential — Part 3
In part 1 and 2 of our blogs on our learning assessments, we taught you about the WIAT-III and WISC-V assessments.
We have invested in the most update-to-date versions of these assessments so that they can best identify your child’s learning potential and their educational needs.
And now we’d like you to learn about another invaluable assessment tool that we recently acquired — the NEPSY.
It’s a unique and effective test, offered by only a few psychology clinics in Melbourne, and designed to assess the neuropsychological development of children aged 3 to 16.
But before we get into the nitty gritty of the assessment, you’re probably wondering…
What is neuropsychological development?
WIAT-III: Assessments for improving your child’s learning potential — Part 2
Learning assessments help to ease the frustrations or concerns parents may have about their child’s academic performance.
And importantly, learning assessments can help your child to achieve their full potential during their school years.
By assessing the major areas that impact learning, our psychologists get a comprehensive insight into your child’s ability, potential, and any barriers stopping them from achieving it.
From there, the best approaches and solutions can be put in place to help a child thrive school.
In our first post of this series, we delved into one of the key tools for assessing learning potential — the WISC-V assessment.
In this post, we’ll give you a run down of one of our other core assessment tools — the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test — and how it can help your child.
WISC-V: Assessments for improving your child’s learning potential — Part 1
We are always looking for new technologies to help our patients be their best selves.
And this is particularly important when it comes to educational intervention.
A learning assessment helps to identify a child’s learning potential, and address any barriers stopping them from achieving it.
The WISC — the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children — is a tool for assessing a child’s academic progress and potential.
We have been using the WISC for years, and recently invested in the updated version, the WISC-V.
It’s been reevaluated, redesigned and retooled to provide a more comprehensive picture of a child’s learning ability.
But what is it, exactly, and how will it help your child?
Why We Need Empathy, and How We Teach it to Children
There is an increasing dialogue in social organisations — in schools, workplaces, court rooms, governments — on the importance of empathy.
Empathy is what sets us apart from machines and even from many other animals.
It’s what enables us to relate to other people and their experiences…
It’s what enables us to understand them.
And it’s what makes us compassionate.
So it’s little wonder why it’s so integral to the social experience of schooling and childhood.
But empathy is not innate — it’s learnt.
And like most things, it’s best learnt during childhood.
And the best teachers are adults.
How to Help the Negative or Pessimistic Child
We’ve all encountered a ‘Negative Nancy’ in our lives — the type of person who is constantly expecting the worst out of any given situation.
While many such people consider themselves ‘realists’, in reality, there’s not a whole lot of benefit to this kind of negative thinking.
And for the relatively sheltered and protected time of childhood, this attitude is particularly unproductive.
So how can we help a pessimistic child to take a more positive approach to life?
How Can We Engage Our Students in the Classroom? Part 1.
There is an epidemic of disengagement in Australian classrooms.
And our students’ education is suffering as a result.
Research from the Grattan Institute has shown that around 40 per cent of school students are regularly unproductive, bored, or struggling to keep up with the curriculum.
This ‘passive disengagement’ can result in students being up to two years behind their engaged peers in the academic setting.
But who or what is to blame?
How and When Should We Teach Kids About Money?
Kids and money — it’s one of the most divisive conversations in parenting, and the topic is approached in a myriad of ways.
Some kids have limitless handouts, some kids have consistent allowances, some work for pocket money, some don’t…
And the age at which parents choose to give children control over and knowledge about money differs widely as well.
There’s no one right or wrong answer, but it can be helpful to follow some guidelines from experts.
Think People Can’t Change? Think Again
They say a leopard can’t change its spots.
But according to the longest personality study undertaken of all time — they absolutely can.
The study started collecting data from 1,208 fourteen-year-olds in 1950…
And more than 60 year laters, 174 of the original participants agreed to be tested again, with surprising results.
‘Happiness Lessons’ to be Introduced into UK Schools
In great news for British students and their families, the UK Department of Education will be investing over 2 million dollars in mental health support over the next few years.
This comes as a response to what has been called a ‘youth mental health epidemic’…
With around 10 per cent of UK students suffering from a diagnosable mental health condition.
Many students suffer from symptoms of anxiety and depression directly as a result of the extreme academic pressures they face in schooling.
So it’s a proactive and thoroughly appropriate response to tackle these issues within the school framework.