Since I started working with Children I was very afraid of the actual impact I will do, and had to learn how to give positive influence. As time passed by, I was astonished day by day with how these young brains learn, think and create.

Current problem of the whole world is that we are having generations of children that are faster, more intelligent and more creative then we used to be as kids. I keep seeing people that work in education blame the children for misconduct, not paying attention and being lazy, when the problem is bigger then that.

I currently work with around eighty children in various age groups and I have to say: “Shame on you educators who blame the children for you ignorance and incompetence!” Children are not lazy, they are bored! Bored because you do not know how to educate them while making them interested in the subjects you teach. 

Intelligence needs to engaged properly. I work in a small town, the town has around sixteen thousand people, it is a small number, yet my acting group keeps expanding. A year ago when I started, I formed two groups with thirty kids, today I grew to four groups and about eighty children in those groups. And I get more every day. How?

ENGAGEMENT, DEDICATION AND MOTIVATION!

Three crucial things on work with children. How to engage a child is not a thing you can do by using the general school system methods because they are general as said above. Every child has some way of understanding the subject, and it is your responsibility to know this, find out how to engage each child you have in your group, in your class.

Children are the future, I keep saying that, but do you know what does this mean?

It means that if you want to change the society, if you want to improve our future you need to start with them! You, as an educator, need to engage them in the proper way, and give them proper knowledge!

Here are some tips that are based on the global educational system that you had no idea you could use.

1. Show children what they can learn, don’t tell them what they must do.

This is actually a critic to the whole educational system. We keep having these general subjects that we teach and ask every child to know it all. We need a system in which we won’t force children to learn, we just need to help them grow their interests. The ACH them to learn with joy instead forcing them into learning with bad grades as punishment.

2. Freedom of thought.

Any child should have their own opinion of things, if they are not what you agree with, you have no right to ask them to change it. How are you feeling reading this? It is not that good if you are doing this and someone out there is criticizing you, is is? Then don’t ask children to change their mind just because you don’t like it, rather ask them how did they come up with that, then start a conversation about the actual subject while giving your reasons out and asking the child to show theirs. You wouldn’t believe how deductive kids can be. Even without you having to tell them they are wrong, if you ask the right questions they will see their own mistake and understand the subject.

3. Knowledge that is self-made is much stronger and more lasting.

This is related to the previous tip, but it needed to be exclaimed. If you get the children to understand the subject by themselves, with questions and let them lead the process of thinking and debate with them on THEIR terms and opinions you will get them to really understand what they are talking about and thinking about. In this way you aren’t explaining anything they are getting it by themselves.

4. Practical use of knowledge.

I know what you are gonna say, not every subject is viable for practical use, but you are wrong. Say you need to explain mass to children, why not use your practical knowledge to show it to them? If you do not have it, well we do live in the internet era and you do have all of the needed “experiments” that you can do without much effort that will give children something to look at, see and feel. For example, if you need to teach them measurements, take a piece of paper for everyone and ask them to draw what they want to build out of it, then while they draw you ask them how big do they want it to be, use rulers and measurements to show them how big is what, once the whole class is into it, and they will be, you can through the process of creating a model of some sort, depends on what they want, teach them everything there is to know about basic math and physics.

There will be more of these kind of post in the future, keep an eye on the blog as the book announcement is coming soon, and more posts come about how to engage kids in various subjects.