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Temporary Homeschooling
Parents as temporary teachers: How to facilitate your child’s homeschooling In the last few weeks, we’ve looked at the benefits of online tutoring, resources to keep kids busy at home, how kids can create new habits to help them adjust to online learning, how parents can manage their kids’ home schooling, fears around online learning, […]
Tutor of the Month: June 2020
Kia C. is our June 2020 Tutor of the Month! Kia has been a BrightSparkz tutor since October 2017, and has done over 100 tutoring hours to date! She is an experienced online tutor, and has assisted with school-level English and Life Science, among other subjects, as well as university-level subjects including sociology. She is […]
How Mindfulness Can Help You & Your Child During COVID-19
Mindfulness has become a bit of a buzz word in conversations around how to deal with the stress of the Coronavirus pandemic, and the associated changes in routine and uncertainty regarding when things will get back to normal. This very important practice has also started to make its way into educational curricula globally, and it’s […]
Juggling Working From Home & Home-Schooling
The Coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdown has been difficult for everyone, but particularly for parents with children. Being suddenly thrown into a situation requiring parents and children to adjust to this new normal, with routines out the window, has been a challenge for even the most organized parents. A well-planned day can quickly turn into […]
Online Learning: The New Normal
April 2020: The world is a very different place to what it was a few months ago. Coronavirus and lockdown, social distancing and school closures have changed how we need to learn. After spending your whole school career learning one way, you may be struggling to adapt to this new normal. Here are some tips for […]
Teaching at Home: Tips for Parents
Most South African parents are suddenly being faced with the challenge of managing their children’s education from home. From a lack of resources, to a lack of ideas, to a lack of knowledge on effective homeschooling techniques – or just a lack of patience! Parents are struggling to keep up with schoolwork set by teachers […]
Tutor of the Month: May 2020
Gerald E. is our May 2020 Tutor of the Month! Gerald has been a BrightSparkz tutor since February 2019, and has done almost 100 tutoring hours to date! He is a phenomenal Maths tutor, and has also been helping some of our sponsored Project 10 000 learners with MAD Foundation! Gerald is in the […]
Tackling 10 Fears About Online Learning
It’s no surprise that Online Learning and tutoring has become better tailored and well-suited to our busy, modern lives. Most parents of school aged learners grew up in a largely offline world, and are now raising their children in a world where a combination of online and offline is part of everyday life and […]