Early riser or night owl, the biorhythm varies from person to person and influences the times at which one can concentrate particularly well. Some people are more productive in the morning, others in the evening.…
A young person should be able to deepen, lose and develop himself on the basis of a subject. There used to be time and space for leisure, for student activities, new hobbies and for love…
1. make peace with the past, because otherwise it will affect your present. 2. it is not important what others think about you, and if we are honest, it is none of your business. 3.…
The big day of school enrollment does not come suddenly, but is prepared or discussed long in advance. For the future first graders, a lot changes: they have to say goodbye to kindergarten and a…
I had exactly one weekend of study time for one exam. The script had 80 pages, the book 600, so I had to choose hard: The script should contain all the relevant content. What do…
Parents in particular, whose children don’t enjoy learning anything at school, often find themselves in a hopeless situation. But this does not have to be the case. The first thing to do is to find…
Children are curious and inquisitive by nature, so they are always enthusiastic about learning. The only problem is that every child has a different approach to learning and this cannot always be taken into account…
The most important thing in learning is planning and organization – first systematically do a time budget analysis. No massive learning over several hours, but distribution of learning units (between 30 and 80 minutes) over…
Step 1: – Consider the three time dimensions : everyday time, free time, learning time – What is most important to you? – What do you want to spend a lot of time on? –…
Children often face the problem that even through the successes they have already achieved, they do not have the certainty that they will also achieve good results in the future. This leads to demotivation and…
Bad grades = bad mood? That’s definitely not how it should be! Children should never be afraid to tell their parents about bad grades. The right way to deal with it, however, is very difficult…
Ask your child about the exact dates of the exams so that he or she is informed and can keep an eye on the schedule. Offer your child direct help, as this is the only…
When the situation repeats itself, it reinforces the fears that already exist. Exam anxiety in children becomes entrenched. It also negatively affects self-confidence. It often affects students who already have less effective learning strategies. They…
Exam anxiety in children can be reduced in a targeted way. The best method is to help children and young people build up skills in the required subjects. Accompanying this, it is helpful to explain…
Exam anxiety in children is accompanied by classic symptoms such as palpitations, nervous excitement, headaches or stomach aches, nausea and sleep disturbances. These symptoms can build up slowly days before and then become increasingly severe.…
The ability to concentrate depends strongly on the environmental conditions. It can be promoted through training. However, it is much more strongly influenced by general conditions such as distractions in the home learning environment, emotional…
Parents and educators should carefully observe what questions a child asks what he or she is interested in, and what he or she wants. The things and activities with which he is satisfied and happy,…
A love of learning can only develop when children are given the opportunity to do things that really interest them. Support should be strongly tailored to the child’s personality. Every child has certain developmental phases…
Children and adolescents have phases from time to time in which they lose their desire to learn. This is usually the case when they become frustrated in acquiring knowledge or learning new skills, whether through…
The developmental process of a child is already complicated enough, so oversupply is counterproductive. You can’t force or anticipate certain developments, such as language acquisition. It is also pointless to offer things that cannot yet…
For online learning, it is important to have a dedicated study area, which means creating an organized and tidy study space. Having an area in the home where you can focus on your academic obligations…
Some essential things you were not taught at school, and that is how to learn! The first problem often occurs during your school years. Because as soon as the lessons become more complex and you…
A study plan and study methods are good prerequisites for effective learning. We’ve put together some more tips for you to keep in mind during your next exam period. A quiet learning environment: Remove all…
Take time to plan your exam period. Then you can choose the right learning methods that suit you. This includes setting yourself a learning goal and creating a study plan. You can use this plan…
Learning involves using previous experiences to develop new behaviors and actions, and since all experiences are ultimately unique, learning always requires some generalization. An effective way to improve generalization is to expose learners to more…
Learning support or learning coaching is advisable when one notices that the problems in school lie more in learning itself than in mastering the subject matter. A well-trained learning coach or learning companion can help…
It is known from scientific research that summaries that contain more information have a positive effect on subsequent exam success, with people with greater prior knowledge producing better excerpts than learners working through completely new…
To learn new content, you can rely on the Rabbit Hole Effect to help learners get started with new content by stimulating their curiosity. When learning a foreign language, start with words first, then go…
Life is changing more and more, and faster and faster. Digitization, new methods and structures, the exponential increase in knowledge and scientific progress force us to constantly adapt in our private and, above all, our…
Those who take notes well in lectures not only retain the material better in their heads, but also have a good basis for repeating the material later. A proven learning method for taking notes is…
Henrik Wissing has analyzed with Nicola Fritze the everyday problems of a student who needs motivation for boring lectures and long learning times. His practical tips largely coincide with those we offer here as learning…
In order to memorize a subject matter, repetition is of great importance. Without repetition, much is quickly forgotten. Therefore, it is important to always include sufficient time for repetition in a time or learning plan.…
Parents, or the family of origin, represent a significant factor in learning success. Results from international longitudinal studies suggest that the characteristics of the families of origin, specifically their interest in education, are crucial influencing…
Learning is efficient when new content and competencies can be built upon existing ones. Therefore, a student’s prior knowledge is of utmost importance for learning. Particularly in the acquisition of mathematical knowledge, in the acquisition…
Learning is generally defined as the acquisition of knowledge and skills. This broad definition covers very different areas, such as language acquisition in infancy, learning to ride a bicycle and swim (mostly) in kindergarten, or…
Lofi or Lo-Fi is the term for low-fidelity. Lofi music sounds dull, it sometimes hisses and crackles. This is intentional, because this is precisely the intentionally imperfect retro sound that music recorded with simple technical…
Many people try to get the material into their heads quickly the night before the exam. But just two weeks later, everything is forgotten again. But how can knowledge be retained in the long term?…
Even if you realize with disappointment the morning after that the book under the pillow did not make you smarter, the advice points in the right direction, because while you sleep, your brain is active.…
Kurt Lewin distinguished between three basic styles of education, namely the authoritarian style of education, the democratic style of education and the laissez-faire style of education. The authoritarian style of education is a behavior in…
Learning coach Inga Janović, an editor in the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, recommends that parents use simple terms to teach children important rules of behavior in the long term. In particular, she…
The advice literature for parents has become unmanageable. Parents receive a lot of well-intentioned advice on parenting and school issues. Not only are there countless guidebooks, but relevant websites and weblogs for children from infancy…
The braindump method of learning is intended primarily for written content. In the braindump method, one divides a text into approximately twenty to thirty minute reading segments. After reading a section of a text, you…
Sitting for long periods of time is known to inhibit the supply of oxygen to the brain, so if you spend all day at a desk or doing some other sedentary activity, be sure to…
Make yourself comfortable on a chair, close your eyes. In your mind, imagine a staircase with ten steps leading down. Each step is a deeper state of relaxation, i.e., at the end of the staircase…
Somehow we do everything at the same time and yet afterwards we have the feeling that we haven’t done anything. Why is that and how does multitasking work anyway? We’ll show you eight myths about…
As simple as flashcards may be, they are often forgotten or their usefulness is underestimated. Because the learning success with flashcards is really enormous. We won’t have to say much about the technique – the…
Depending on whether you are an auditory or visual learner, you can incorporate each sense into your learning. For the visual type, visualizations are particularly well suited. For example, create posters, learning posters, or a…
For the start of school after the vacations, some tips for proper learning, especially for variety, because always the same is boring, so to bring variety into learning is important. Asking questions, i.e., to ask…
According to some studies, pets keep the brain young even in old age, and keeping a pet can slow down the decline in brain power in older adults. The effect is particularly strong in people…
Sit in front of an object, for example a burning candle or a picture. Now consciously focus only on this picture or candle flame. Breathe in and out and return your concentration to the object…