{"id":287097,"date":"2023-04-06T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T06:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=287097"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:07:46","slug":"what-is-focus-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2023\/04\/06\/what-is-focus-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"What is focus in the classroom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACTIVE listening, reading, writing. As simple as this sounds, it is a constant refrain from teachers : children don&#8217;t read. or write or listen critically to what is being done at a particular moment.<\/p>\n<p>So how can you help your child do these things better. How do we get them to turn a laser-like focus on the present moment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Bob-Proctor-Quote-Take-your-mind-off-yourself-Focus-on-what-you-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-287100 alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/04\/Bob-Proctor-Quote-Take-your-mind-off-yourself-Focus-on-what-you-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Ask them many questions about what they learned and try to understand and learn it yourself. Make it a dialogue by genuinely being interested in what they learned. This encourages them to explain their learning &#8211;\u00a0 which if you are doing this frequently, will encourage them to pay more attention in class.<\/li>\n<li>Reading for pleasure. This builds connections between ideas, critical expression and comprehension.<\/li>\n<li>encourage writing through calligraphy (as a hobby) or keeping a journal or documenting some project that is useful for you. It is shocking how many students cannot write decently. And before we jump to the argument that &#8220;we type everything anyway on computers&#8221;, consider the evidence. The act of writing is personal, the feel, touch and connection between hand and thought. Research has demonstrated this link that reinforces learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Start today. Active interest (not control or demands or threats)\u00a0 by parents in their children&#8217;s life does make a huge difference to their growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACTIVE listening, reading, writing. As simple as this sounds, it is a constant refrain from teachers : children don&#8217;t read. or write or listen critically to what is being done at a particular moment. So how can you help your child do these things better. How do we get them to turn a laser-like focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,99,194,118,30,192,31,32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-10","category-grade-11","category-dp","category-grade-12","category-grade-7","category-myp","category-grade-8","category-grade-9","category-secondary-maths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}