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Post-Online Learning: 5 Ways to Set Up Your Child For Success

Post-Online Learning: 5 Ways to Set Up Your Child For Success

The school year is well underway again and ensuring that high schoolers succeed is at the top of most parents’ minds.

How do we ensure that our high schoolers are bringing their A game to the classroom? Here are some tips on how to get better grades especially as we enter the world of post-online learning. Wizeprep is ready to deliver some tips on how to ensure your High Schooler has the best year ever.
1. Eat a Good Breakfast
It’s true that a full breakfast is a cliche way of starting the day. However, making sure that high schoolers are fueled up for a full day of school is essential to their learning and ensuring that they’re fully focused in class. Earning better grades starts at the breakfast table.
Try to avoid sugary cereals for breakfast because those sugar spikes are not keeping students satiated during those long days of studying and working hard.
Go for complete breakfasts full of fruits, healthy fats, and protein to keep high schoolers fueled. Well, at least until lunchtime.
2. Communicate with Your Child's Teacher
Ensure that you’re communicating with your child’s teacher regularly. Many teachers nowadays have email newsletters or online classroom spaces where they post assignments and deadlines. Online learning has moved many of these parent-teacher interactions online, and with the move back to in-person, many of these interactions have remained online.
Familiarize yourself with these online platforms if possible, just to make sure that your child is staying on track and is submitting assignments on time.
3. Make Time for Extracurriculars
Make time for hobbies and sports outside of school,  and ensure that your high schooler is signing up for clubs and sports teams at school. It’s the best way to make friends and to blow off some steam from all of the hectic schedules. This is more important than ever after years of online learning: making friends is challenging and students are starved for social interaction and need to be able to make friends again.
Schools might post a club list on their school website, so have your child go through them and ask themselves to commit to trying at least 3 of the 5 clubs or sports that they pick.
Clubs and sports are also a great way to gain leadership skills and add some experience to that newly minted resume. Universities and workplaces, especially in the early stages, are looking for students who’ve demonstrated leadership and commitment. And what better way than joining some extracurriculars when just starting high school!
  
4. Find Ways to Connect with Your Teenager
Do you ever get the response from your teen that school was “fine,” or when you ask them what they learned today, they reply with a shoulder shrug? Teenage hormones, new friends, and workload pressures bring on a whole new set of challenges for high schoolers. Earning better grades is not just about studying but also taking care of mental health. 

So what is the best way of being a supportive parent without annoying your child into never speaking to you again? Here’s a tip: don’t make opening up to you the main event and remember you too need to be vulnerable. Sometimes teenagers forget that you too used to be a high schooler, and more than anyone, you likely understand exactly what they’re going through or experiencing.
Go to a park on a weekend and play some frisbee or go for a walk in the neighbourhood. That’s the perfect time to chat with your child while busy with another activity. Throw the frisbee and ask if they’re still doing dissections in biology or who’s the QB for the football team this season. These little interactions will help your child (eventually) open up and discuss about other things happening at school
Pressuring your child to open up or when they do open if you are dismissive of how they are feeling could lead to your child never opening up to you again.
Keeping tabs with your child’s mental health and doing these non-intrusive weekly check-ins will help you stay aware of what your child is doing in school and outside of school and being able to support them when they need to.
5. Get Extra Help for Their Academic Success
Last but not least, one of the most important aspects is ensuring that your high schooler has access to the best educational resources and the world’s best tutors. Admissions to universities and colleges are becoming more competitive with every passing year, students need to have the best grades while being more active in their community than ever. Thankfully Wizeprep exists, and for only $15 a month students gain access to North America’s best educators, classroom curriculum aligned content, and all available on demand and on a high schooler’s own schedule.
High schoolers can ask their Wizeprep instructor questions
They gain access to thousands of hours of on-demand video content
There’s hundreds of practice content based on the classroom curriculum
Wizeprep has over 23,000 positive reviews with 98% of students saying that they’ve improved their grades thanks to Wizeprep
Check us out at Wizeprep, where your student can watch video lessons, refer to handy notes, ask instructors q&a's, and practice exam-like questions.

  

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