Tips + Tricks: 5 Life Lessons Your Child Will Learn in International School

Attending school is almost always a child’s first opportunity to engage at length with the world and with other people outside their immediate household. Additionally, children and young people spend most of their time at school throughout their formative years. Thus, it’s frequently the site of key experiences and interactions that will go on to shape these children’s values, skills, and personalities as they grow up.

The important role education plays in a child’s life and growth means that choosing a school for their children is sure to be a daunting experience for any parent. This process is likely to be especially intimidating to expatriate parents, who may find their options in their host country limited to international schools by virtue of language barriers or legal restrictions. Luckily, the best international schools offer their students rich learning experiences, combining enjoyable and diverse activities with consistent academic rigor.

If you and your family have plans of relocating to Singapore, consider a school with a progressive, globally focused American curriculum Singapore expatriate families trust. Such an institution is guaranteed to teach its students a wealth of significant lessons that will serve them well throughout their lives. Among these most important life lessons students can learn from international education are the following:

Respect for Cultural Diversity

A multicultural learning experience is one of the biggest and most obvious benefits of sending your child to an international school. They’ll have the opportunity to socialize, study, and work with teachers and peers from a vast variety of cultural backgrounds. Such an environment discourages the development of harmful discriminatory and prejudicial attitudes. Instead, your child will rapidly learn how to navigate cultural differences with respect and compassion and how to engage people from all walks of life.

An international school will also give your child copious opportunities to remain connected with their home country’s culture while simultaneously immersing themselves in their host country’s traditions and ways of life. This will ideally lead them to develop a strong and well-rounded sense of identity that has been fundamentally shaped by life in multiple places.

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Mum Shares: REX Education + PEAC Launch Edukampyon Iskolar Para Sa Kinabukasan ~ A Scholarship Program To Champion, Strengthen, + Uplift Teacher Education

“Teaching is the profession that teaches all other professions.” Teachers are living vessels of knowledge and of dreams and aspirations of children whose voices fill teachers’ hearts and minds. As such, we recognize that lifelong learners need lifelong teachers ~ both championing education toward a better future for all.

With the desire to fuel hope and inspire action among Edukampyons, REX Education and the Private Education Assistance Committee {PEAC} launched the PEAC ~ REX Edukampyon Iskolar Para Sa Kinabukasan, a scholarship program that aims to champion, strengthen, and advance teacher education by encouraging the best and brightest learners to pursue the teaching profession.

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Addressing the Challenges Faced by the Education Sector

According to the 2018 OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results, Filipino students ranked the lowest among 79 countries in mathematics, science, and reading, with over 80% of students not reaching the minimum level of proficiency in reading. In a 2019research conducted by the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMMS), scores of Filipino students decreased by 61 points in mathematics and by 83 points in science from 2003 to 2019. The Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) also found that in 2019, at least 83% of Grade 5 students scored below reading and mathematics standards expected for end of primary schooling.

According to the World Bank Philippines Report 2021: “Improving teacher quality in schools will mean attracting and selecting the best candidates into the teaching profession. To strengthen teacher quality, [we] should begin from selecting the right people into the profession. Policies in teacher recruitment and hiring should be aimed at increasing the attractiveness of the career, such as incentivizing high achievers to pursue teacher training and eventually enter into the profession.”

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Mum Reviews: OneClass.com’s Free Tutoring Program With Livestreaming

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted classes all over the world, keeping most students safe at home while we ride the virus out. This poses an additional challenge to mothers and parents who find themselves worrying about their children’s education and learning for the first time in a long time.

It is fortunate that some schools have stepped up and begun offering online classes to make up for the missed lessons and classes in school. But for children whose schools do not provide alternative learning, it is rather problematic and surely another thing to worry about for parents.

Today, I am sharing an awesome #mumfind for mums who are rather in a bind and finding themselves stressing about how to keep their children learning, and keep them away from their games and gadgets even for a little while, as they stay at home during this outbreak.

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