By the time a child enters primary school in Singapore, many parents hope that they will feel prepared to take on the ups and downs of formal education.
However enrolling in school is just the first step in a long journey ahead – along the way, your child will undoubtedly face numerous obstacles and setbacks that may throw them for a loop.
One of the most common challenges children face is struggling to concentrate or focus when studying or doing homework.
While some kids naturally grow out of this phase, others may experience prolonged disruption that can negatively affect their quality of life.
If your child is experiencing difficulties concentrating in school, enrichment programmes are one way to supplement the content knowledge they might have missed out on. A good enrichment programme will also be able to help them develop both academically and personally by imparting active learning strategies that can improve their concentration and focus.
Why children struggle with concentrating in school
Being able to concentrate and focus on a task isn’t just important in the classroom, but can affect non-academic aspects of your child’s life as well. For example it can make it difficult for them to make and keep friends, or they may exhibit behavioural difficulties when they get frustrated and fail to concentrate on a task.
There are many underlying causes of poor concentration or focus, including:
- Anxiety or stress
- External or environmental distractions (e.g. cellphones, video games)
- Lifestyle (e.g. eating or sleeping habits)
- Boredom
- Genetic or physiological factors
Many factors also interact with one another, and the right strategy to motivate your child to study will vary across individual children.
The good news is as with any other skill, concentration and focus can be practiced and honed!
One way to engage children with poor concentration is through using active learning strategies such as active recall or brainstorming which make the learning process fun and interactive.
Compared to rote memorisation, active learning challenges the learner to interpret what they have learnt in a meaningful way. This transforms learning into a more engaging process, drawing on the learner’s own resilience and determination to arrive at a desired learning outcome.
How MindChamps Enrichment helps improve your child’s concentration and focus
Here at MindChamps, we believe in imparting valuable active learning strategies during our enrichment classes so that our students can unlock their full potential as a thinker and learner. All of our programmes are backed by the latest research in the fields of Education, Psychology, Neuroscience and Theatre to ensure a holistic learning experience.
Using pedagogical skills such as the 3-Mind Approach, our programmes seek to cultivate a Champion Mindset in young learners by empowering them to learn from their mistakes and develop an inner confidence.
Our integrated approach also helps to develop skills such as impulse control and time management, as your child will learn how to understand, store, recall, and synthesise information and concepts.
This not only benefits them during their school examinations, but helps them better understand and approach a wide range of situations in their everyday lives.
Our Primary Success Programme and PSLE – The Champion Mindset Way programme go a step further by using our revolutionary Optimal Flow Method™ to help your child better understand new concepts by linking back to previous knowledge. This enhances their content knowledge and provides them with relevant revision and exam skills to help them stay engaged with what they are learning.
Book a centre visit today to find out more about our various enrichment programmes in Singapore!