1. Structuring lessons
Structure your lessons. This means that your objectives, tasks and the procedure are clear and comprehensible for the student.
2. Learning success, motivation and learning techniques
Regularly monitor the learning success of your student and at the same time teach motivation and learning techniques.
Use short tests to regularly ensure that the pupil is making the necessary progress. Motivate your student again and again, especially if too little progress has been made. In addition to general learning strategies, also give them tips, that specifically help with grammar school preparation. For example, the pupil should:
- When creating the learning plan, already determine, which topic is to be studied on which day. This makes planning more focussed and the student does not have to think about what they are learning today.
- At the beginning, check the exam preparation material for completeness and organise it (old entrance exams, teaching material, old exams). This can be organised using folders and tabs.
- Write down questions and ambiguities immediately, if these arise during the learning time.
Regularly remind your pupil of alternative learning techniques, that suit your pupil's learning style and motivate them again in every lesson, to visualise their goal. Your student should also practise always think positively and turn their nervousness into positive excitement.
3. Contact with parents
Stay in contact with the parents:
- Check in with the parents regularly, whether problems of any kind have arisen during your absence.
- Also keep the parents informed about their child's progress.
4. Final phase: exam simulation under real conditions
Simulate exams under real conditions at the end of the preparations. Use old Gymi exams for this, which you can find on the various pages of www.gymnasium.ch.
Keep to the same time limits and do not help the student. This is the only way to create a realistic simulation. As you are several weeks away from the exam date at this point, there is still enough time to give final input, make corrections or, in the worst case, plan an intensive learning phase See article Gymi exam: Topics & learning plan.