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Children's performance at school depends on these factors:

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Children's performance at school depends on these factors:

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- whether they are worried about what is going on at home,
- whether they have a good teacher,
- whether they like their teachers,
- whether they're willing to devote their intelligence to things that seem pointless,
- whether the experience have taught them that trying hard is usually worth well,
- whether they much prefer practical and active learning to academic and sedentary learning.

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Students need to have learned how to be tenacious and resourceful, imaginative and logical self-disciplined and self-aware collaborative and inquisitive.

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A lot of times parents think the most important thing in their child's life is their job/work in the future. Are they going to make enough money? Are they going to be successful?

"But work is only one small part of what will determine the quality of her life. Will she from healthy romantic relationships? Will she suffer from mood disorder? How will she respond to rejection and exclusion when inevitably experiences them."

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All of them were written off by their teachers because their way of learning didn't fit that of the school.

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“the effect of parental engagement over a student's school career is equivalent to added adding an extra two to three years to that students education.”

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Children's most powerful learning tools are questioning and thinking, not memorizing and regurgitating.

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Stanford researcher Professor Carol Dweck

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Growth mindset - Learners make more mistakes and more interesting mistakes than those with fix mindsets. Why? because we learned most when we are pushing ourselves not merely staying within our comfort zone but exerting ourselves to try something more challenging or adventurous.

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The most useful thing that parents and teachers can do is to give learners accurate specific feedback.

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Share difficulties with children so they will understand struggling and making mistakes are normal and healthy aspects of learning.

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"Real inner can do confidence comes from the experiences of planning and seeing difficult tasks through."

We can guide students by practicing independence.
- Simple jobs to help out at home, folding the laundry, help cook a meal, walk the dog, buying groceries, etc.

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"Curiosity is at the heart of all learning. Being curious involves noticing things, reading avidly and obviously asking good questions."

"It can be wearying to answer yet another question but if you can possibly manage to show genuine interest in the inquiry such role modeling will be a powerful influence."

"Questions are the outward expression of our curiosity."

"Simple things that work include watching a wildlife program together and then talking about it. Making sure you have a good supply of simple reference books around the place dictionaries atlas's guidebooks and so on getting your child to create a treasure hunt around your house or garden and make up the clues sitting beside your child and doing an internet search for something that one of you is curious about."

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"At the most personal level being able to name and talk about feelings as fundamentally important."
"Always you are trying to create a climate in which children feel able to express their feelings and be listened to as they do so. A harder and equally important lesson for children is the realization that no one can make them feel something. Even if they are angry or sad they have choices. They can lash out or be quiet or plan to do something different. Once children can recognize and they name their feelings they're well on their way to recognizing their own trigger points and sore spots which tend to cause them to react in ways which are less helpful and start to find better ways of dealing with them."

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In this video Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, addresses why creativity matters and what we can learn from kindergartens to close the gap between the desire for creativity and education systems’ ability to develop and nurture this pivotal skill.

Mitchel Resnick is part of the Creating Creators report which convenes and presents expert opinions from right across the educational spectrum – academics, assessors, enablers, governments, learners and teachers – on the importance of creativity in education systems.

Please visit https://www.legofoundation.com/en/why-play/skills-for-holistic-development/creativity-matters/creating-creators/mitchel-resnick/ to download her contribution from Mitchel Resnick and find the other contributions from the Creating Creators report on how we can enhance creativity in today’s and tomorrow’s education systems.

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Interests are a natural resource that fuels learning. When you work on projects you care about, you're willing to work longer and harder and persist in the face of challenges. The connection between learning and motivation goes in both directions.

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In Reggio classrooms, children and teachers are constantly documenting their work - posting their documentation on the walls of the classroom for everyone to see. It's part of a process that they call making learning visible. The documentation serves several purposes: It encourages children to reflect upon their work, it enables teachers to get a better understanding of their students' thinking, and it provides a way for parents (when they visit the classroom) to see what their children have been working on. Parents are viewed as partners and collaborators, invited to participate in all parts of the educational process.

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As the pace of change in the world continues to accelerate, people must learn how to adapt to constantly changing conditions. Success in the future - for individual, for communities, for companies, for nations as a whole - will be based on the ability to think and act creatively.

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Sir Ken Robinson emphasizes the importance of taking risks and making mistakes: "if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."

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"We need to provide children with more opportunities to tinker, with both physical and digital materials. The tinkering process can be messy and meandering, but that's true of all creative processes. A careful plan can lead to efficient results, but you can't plan your way to creativity. Creating thinking grows out of creative tinkering."

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"In play, it is as though the child were trying to jump above the head of his normal behaviour."

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"Through play more than any other activity children achieve mastery of the external world."

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"Piaget found that children actively construct knowledge through their everyday interactions with people and objects in the world. Knowledge isn't poured into children, like water into a vase. Instead, children are constantly creating, revising, and testing their own theories about the world as they play with their toys and friends."

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"Clear, there are big problems with the traditional teaching strategy of delivering instruction and information. So what's the alternative? Some people go to the opposite extreme, arguing that children are naturally curious and can figure everything out on their own. They often refer to Jean Piaget's famous quote: When you teach a child something, you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. Some people interpret this to mean that the best way to help children learn is to simply to stay out of their way."

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"When students solve sets of disconnected problems they often end up with disconnected knowledge, without an understanding of why they were learning it or how to apply it in new situations. The project-based approach is much different. As students work on projects, they encounter concepts in a meaningful context, so the knowledge is embedded in a rich web of associations. As a result, students are better able to access and apply the knowledge in new situations."

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"Ask not what the toy can do for your child; ask what your child can do with the toy."

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"Being creative is one of the ways in which your child will be able to distinguish himself or herself from their peers. It involves having good ideas dealing with uncertainty and being able to make links between apparently unconnected things. A number of well-respected thinkers about education believe that creativity is being squeezed out of some schools because of an obsession with tests and exams."

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"Commitment to learning is essential if your children are going to find their passion in life. For children to find their passion - the things that really turned them on - parents and grandparents need to give them every opportunity to try things out.

The trick here is to gradually narrow the frame and set mutually agreed goals with your children about how long they might stick out something before they decide is not for them."

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Effective collaboration is when children and young people work together as a group with shared goals and individual responsibilities – successful collaboration happens when children not only work in a group but work as a group.