But first and foremost, you need to understand whether you yourself are ready to let your child of school age go abroad for a long time? After all, if one of the parents cannot bear to be separated from their child for a long period, there are plenty of international schools in our country that have teaching staff from different countries.
But as soon as parents confidently give a positive answer to the main question, they can begin conversations with the future student of a foreign school. The article gives several tips on how to determine whether the child is ready to go abroad, and most importantly, whether he or she has the desire to study away from home.
1. Does the child want to go abroad?
You should send your child abroad only when he or she really wants to change their life. You can easily send abroad children who love adventure and are not afraid of independence. Children who have never been abroad often have a rather ambivalent attitude towards the idea of studying abroad.
Thus, the Kharkiv travel agency strongly recommends that parents use summer vacations to explore foreign countries together. This will not only give the child an idea of the country and its culture, but will also quickly make them realize the ubiquity of English language use.
When children stop being afraid of traveling abroad, they can be sent to a summer camp. Such a trip will help children develop independence and language skills, and will also help parents judge their child's readiness to go abroad for study.
2. Will the child be able to feel comfortable studying under the classical European system, and will he or she not slip under the free American system?
Many parents, after a semester of expensive education in Western European countries, learn that their child is suffering, unable to feel free in a strict education system. Indeed, it often happens that children who come from Russian-speaking countries realize that the knowledge they gained in domestic schools was greatly overestimated.
Thus, all free time has to be spent on re-studying the material to meet the foreign system. Creative, active children who are used to leadership in a group suffer the most.
Another problem is faced by parents who send their children to study in countries with a pro-American education system. In such schools, children are taught to think outside the textbook and are encouraged to study many subjects beyond the curriculum. At first, such freedom sparks children's interest in learning, but closer to exams it turns out that the student has been doing everything except studying the main subjects. The only way to avoid problems before choosing a country of study is to send the child to a psychologist who understands the nuances of different educational systems.
3. What is the ultimate goal of the child's education in a foreign school?
The answer to this fairly simple question will help determine the school. If the student plans to enter a foreign university, then it is necessary to start studying under a foreign system as early as possible. The explanation is quite simple: the longer the student studies in a foreign system, the less competition there will be with newly arriving applicants from abroad and native English speakers.
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