GEORGIA MILESTONES
Is Your Child Ready? How Can You Help?
National PTA
La PTA Nacional ha desarrollado guías para padres de cuatro páginas que proporcionan una visión general de lo que su hijo aprenderá al final de cada año escolar en matemáticas y artes del lenguaje inglés / alfabetización.
Georgia Test Prep provides online access to thousands of practice questions and enables students to get familiar with the online Milestones testing tool. This resource requires a paid subscription and a device with internet access.
A one year subscription for one child at $35.99 is probably affordable, but that can quickly become unaffordable if you have several school age children at home. Still, it is worth taking a FREE TEST DRIVE to find out whether this thing could be good for you and your child. If you then feel that Georgia Test Prep can help you help your children, maybe different members of your extended family (grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, even an older sibling) would each be willing to sponsor one child, making it possible for every student in your household to benefit.
Of course, it is only worth paying for if you know YOU will take the time and make the effort to be sure your children regularly use Georgia Test Prep to practice. If a child of yours finds the practice questions difficult to master, it may take your whole family pitching in to help him/her learn and grow. While assisting your child, however, be sure to ask a lot of questions that lead his/her thinking in the right direction to come up with the answers and do the work. No learning will take place if you simply tell your child what to write/type when constructing an answer.
Want to help your child? Do what it takes to maintain composure and keep a smile on your face. If you're still smiling, your child can smile with you, even when staggering and stumbling down what feels like a treacherous road. Keep those practice sessions short and take a lot of breaks, but come back to it over and over again. Never give up.
With all that in mind, consider the following quotes.
- “A lot of what we do with children is well intentioned interference.” ~ Niki Buchan
2. Ask a question to help your child think through constructing an answer.
- “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” ~ Mark Van Doren
3. Understand that your child's misbehaviors are only a cry for help.
- “Children don’t know how to ask for what they don’t know they need. Their asking comes in the form of behavior.” ~ Bonnie Harris
4. When things aren't going well, love your child and use words of encouragement.
- “Perhaps, if tearful little boys were comforted instead of shamed, there wouldn’t be so many angry men struggling to express and empathize with emotions.” ~ Lelia Scholl