Characteristics of a weak student in grade 9: compilation rules and sample

A characterization of a weak pupil of grade 9 is compiled by a teacher in several cases: for making a decision on continuing the child’s studies, for transferring to another educational institution or for receiving a secondary specialized education, for examining the situation at the PMPC, at the request of social services, the police. Since poor student performance can have many reasons, then a characterization should be made taking into account all the influencing factors.

Feature Structure

The characteristics of a weak student, a 9th grade graduate, are usually structured and compiled according to a certain algorithm. It should include the following information about the teenager:

• personal data;
• information about the health of the child, possible medical contraindications;
• family data (structure, social status);
• pedagogical aspect (academic performance, success, attitude to study, discipline);
• psychological portrait of a child;
• the student’s social life, relations in the team and with teachers;
• morale, hobbies, bad habits or cases of deviant behavior;
• an indication of the place from which the request for the compilation of the characteristic was made;
• signatures.

Student Social Information

The social conditions of a child’s life in many respects affect his studies. The characteristic for a weak student of grade 9 necessarily includes such data:

• a description of the composition of the family and relatives that have the greatest impact on the development of the student (their name, age, field of activity);
• family status;
• family members have convictions, addictions, mental or severe physical illnesses;
• psychological climate (whether violence, conflict, detachment), and educational influence;
• material well-being of the family.

Psychological and pedagogical features

The characteristic for a weak pupil of the 9th grade has the main part - in fact, pedagogical data about the child and his psychological portrait. It is important to indicate the following:

• attitude to educational activities;
• academic performance and interest in specific subjects;
• participation in classroom and extracurricular activities;
• successes and achievements in studies;
• discipline;
• development of cognitive processes (thinking, attention, memory, imagination, speech);
• emotional reactions;
• self-esteem of a teenager ;
• character traits;
• abilities, interests and inclinations;
• communication skills, leadership inclinations and the nature of communication with others;
• having friends;
• severity of tendency to deviant behavior.

In order for the drafting of the document to not be so laborious, the teacher can use the Map-scheme of the student’s features, where during the child’s education data on his development were recorded. Using the Map-scheme, you can also trace the dynamics of the development of individual traits of the student and indicate this in the characteristic.

Sample characteristics for a weak student in grade 9

Tarasov Taras is a student of this school since the eighth grade (2015). At the moment he is finishing 9th grade. During the training, Taras showed himself as a poorly performing student with insufficiently developed cognitive interests.

Taras is brought up in a complete socially dysfunctional family. Father, Tarasov T.P. Born in 1980, and mother, O. I. Tarasova, b. 1981, unemployed, over 5 years old suffer from alcohol addiction. A grandmother, Petrova L.G., a pensioner, is engaged in raising a child. The family is characterized by low material incomes; they live in a one-room apartment requiring repair. Taras is not adequately provided with the necessary seasonal clothes and school supplies. During the training, cases of theft from classmates (pens, pencils) were recorded.

Taras is ill with gastritis of the stomach in a chronic form, has contraindications for physical education.

The educational activities of Tarasov Taras is of little interest. At lessons passive, does not perform homework. He reads poorly, academic performance is below average. There is a favorite subject, biology, for which he does not miss classes and is actively involved in the lesson. Concentration and switching attention reduced. Abstract thinking is developed at an average level, is able to make logical conclusions. The development of voluntary memory is below average, it is difficult to remember educational material. Therefore, we can talk about the makings of a successful boy’s education, but pedagogical neglect. From an early age, no one was engaged in the development of cognitive processes of a student.

Taras is a modest, insecure teenager. Shyness and inability to start a dialogue prevent him from establishing friendly relations with classmates. Most often walks sad. She does not take part in group events, she refuses to talk about herself.

The child requires psychological assistance and attention from social services for working with minors about the family situation.

Characteristic of a weak student of grade 9 at PMPK

The commission uses the characterization from the teacher as one of the main sources of information about the child. For her meeting, the characteristic for a weak pupil of grade 9 includes more detailed information about such features of the child:

• data on the child’s visits to correctional groups and what, what kind of diagnosis or abnormality was observed and how it developed;
• general student awareness of himself and the outside world, social orientation;
• psychophysiological development (performance, the development of analyzers and perceptions, fine and large motor skills, cognitive processes of the psyche);
• degree of mastering the program;
• characterization of oral and written speech;
• self-service skills;
• ability to communicate with others;
• adaptability, speed of assimilation of new information;
• what help is needed.

In general, the document should provide an adequate picture of how the child is developed at his age in the socio-psychological and pedagogical terms, what difficulties he is experiencing and what help does he require.