Education and career

Homework Kit

Pens, calculator, notepadYou can waste a lot of time looking for pens or exercise books when it's time for homework. If you then have to search for all the items, you not only lose valuable time, but also motivation to start your homework at all.

 

 

The best way to avoid such searches is to keep a homework kit next to your desk, with its contents always available and ready to use.

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Reading on the fly, but correctly

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How do you find a particular name in the phone book? Not by reading each name individually, of course, but by skimming the necessary letters and perhaps even using your index finger to help your eyes. This type of quick, cursory reading is also known as scanning.

Here we are talking about a different but very related type of cursory reading, skimming. In contrast to scanning, in skimming the reader does not know what he is looking for. A different mental method is therefore required to arrive at the result.

 

How do you read through a text quickly and efficiently and absorb the essential information?

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How to keep children motivated

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The first discovery of a new leisure activity initially arouses enthusiasm and excitement in children. But after a while, this enthusiasm gradually ebbs away as the new hobby becomes commonplace. This is perfectly normal.

 

How can parents keep their children interested in this activity? Because often a hobby hides an educational measure for the child's future.

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