The ability to learn quickly and efficiently is the main skill that has been formed since childhood. It is necessary for man to achieve future success in life. To acquire this skill, a child must have an interest in learning, a desire to learn new things. The main task of the school is to instill in the child an interest in learning. Despite numerous innovations, the learning process in most schools remains tedious and lengthy. And this forms a negative attitude towards education in children from the first grades. How to make sure that a child wants to receive new information, and the school does not seem like hell to him?
What is a school?
The world is constantly changing. In order to respond in time to these changes and correctly perceive them, a person must develop. To do this, you need to have the necessary knowledge, which the school initially gives, the foundation that a person needs to build a future life.
School years are a part of our life in which we not only acquire the necessary knowledge, but also learn to build relationships, listen and understand each other, be responsible for our actions and words. At school, we acquire skills that, in adulthood, help us move confidently.
The child and school are inextricably linked for many years. It is in the school walls that the process of growing up occurs - childhood is replaced by youth. But first of all, the school gives us the baggage of knowledge necessary for independent existence in the future.
First grader
A child who goes to first grade experiences real stress, even if he had previously attended kindergarten and knows how to behave in a team and in lessons. The fact is that in the gardens all classes last no more than 20 minutes and are held in the form of a game. And at school, lessons have a duration of 35 minutes, and they require intellectual work from children. The first days of a child in school are also difficult because new people surround him and they have to build relationships with their peers. If a first grader did not attend kindergarten, then it is even more difficult for him to socialize at school.
First graders need to be helped to join the educational process. Both teachers and parents should do this. This is a crucial stage in the life of a child. If he cannot adapt to school, he will begin to have problems in relations with classmates, teachers, and, as a result, poor performance. But most importantly, he will have an aversion to school, from which it will be difficult to get rid of.
Educational process
Children in school in the first grade last 35 minutes. Big changes (20-25 minutes). First graders study in the first shift. They have 4-5 lessons per day. The first month, small schoolchildren get used to the new educational process. This period is called the “introduction to school life”. Children are introduced to the school, they get used to sitting in the classroom and listening to the material. Classes during this period have a playful, creative, familiarization character. Homework is not set. No ratings. The knowledge of children is evaluated in a way that is understandable to them: teachers put the pros, questions and cons, emoticons or sad faces, suns or clouds. Teachers often provide an opportunity for elementary school children to independently evaluate their knowledge.
From the second month in the first grade, a full-fledged educational process begins. The number of lessons per day does not exceed five. Among them are reading, writing, mathematics, singing, physical education, drawing, rhythm. And the first tasks begin to set on the house.
How to determine school readiness
Before enrolling a child in an educational institution, parents should consider a number of factors:
- Adaptive abilities: how well the child gets along with others, how he feels in an unfamiliar environment and team.
- Temperament of the child. Hyperactive children find it harder to integrate into school life because it requires strict discipline.
- The presence of intellectual skills: knowledge of the alphabet, numbers, the ability to write letters, read syllables.
- The degree of socialization. How sociable the child is and how he makes contact with others.
- Self-esteem and self-perception of the child.
- Does he know how to defend his interests and how he does it.
Given all these points, you can assess whether the child is ready for the educational process. At school, grade 1 is quite heavy, not only for six-year-olds, but often for seven-year-olds. If the child is not ready, the school walls can "break" him. To avoid this, you need to send children to school on time and help them adapt to new life.
Adaptation
According to statistics, about 20% of first-graders have mental disorders that are borderline in nature. By the end of the first class of such children becomes 60%. The mental health of students is deteriorating due to the stress associated with the learning process. Often difficulties arise due to heavy loads and additional extracurricular activities.
The child and school always remain the most discussed topic for parents and students. School is necessary for children, but often, instead of positive aspects, it brings unpleasant consequences to the child's life.
Some tips will help your child adapt and avoid stress:
- It is necessary to accustom the child to an early rise in advance. It is better if he wakes up and immediately does exercises. So the baby will get used to get up in the morning without whims, and morning exercise will strengthen his nervous system.
- Develop responsibility and discipline in the child. We need to teach him to get ready for school in the evening, so that in the morning he will not forget anything. At the same time, he must make all the fees himself, his parents can only help him.
- Giving your child sandwiches or cookies to school so that he can eat during breaks. Not all children love food in the dining room and often remain hungry. And the child should always have water with him. Dehydration reduces mental processes.
- Teach your child to have breakfast. A good breakfast is one of the factors of academic achievement.
- Keep track of the baby’s sleep. At the age of 6-10 years, children should sleep at least 10 hours a day. If the child does not get enough sleep, this leads to a decrease in academic performance and frequent neurosis.
- Help the child, but do not do everything instead. This is especially true for homework. Otherwise, the first grader will not learn independence and will constantly need someone's help.
The most common school problems
When first-graders have difficulties, everyone is to blame for this - school, children, teacher, parents. The most common reasons a child does not want to learn are:
- The inner fears of the student (in front of the teacher, the team). It happens that a child cannot get used to the new situation, he doesn’t manage to make friends with the guys, and he is also afraid of poor grades, so he does not want to go to school. The culprits of the last paragraph are often the parents - they become too strict for the first grader.
- Bullying and ridicule by peers.
- The teacher’s dislike for the child.
Psychologists note that children with low self-esteem who have increased anxiety are more likely to encounter such problems. Pupils who are brought up in troubled families also fall here.
Success factors
It is important that at the initial stage the child loves the learning process. And the school should contribute to this: the teaching material should be presented correctly, accessible and in an interesting form for the student. Psychologists distinguish 3 factors that contribute to the child's academic performance in primary school:
- Good first teacher. The authority of the teacher is an important point in the learning process.
- Personal memories of parents. Dad and mother are obliged to help the child, telling how interesting and fun their school days were. You can show your student old notebooks to “warm up” his interest in learning. When taking the child to school, ask him to share with you interesting events that will happen this day.
- Building relationships with classmates. The child should have friends among peers at school. This is one of the factors for successful study.
Homework
The first days of a child at school are for guidance only. But starting from the second month, homework may appear. The task of parents is to teach the child responsibility and instill the ability to independently carry out lessons. To do this, it is necessary to form the correct stereotype that will be associated with homework. Psychologists share tips on how to do the best lessons:
- It’s more interesting for a child when everything happens rhythmically. After school, you need to provide 1 hour of rest, and then you can start the lessons.
- Make a lesson plan with your child.
- Set time for homework. It should not be stretched. For a first grader, the norm is 40 minutes.
- To provide the child with a change of activities for successful and quick completion of lessons.
School characters
A child of 7 years at school can hardly navigate in a team. But this is the main condition for his comfortable state of health. If the child cannot remember the names of teachers and peers in any way, you can resort to small tricks. At home, he should conduct home training: cut out a figure, write the name of teachers, on others - the names of peers. So the child will be able to quickly learn the names of the guys and teachers. It is better if the figures are in different colors.
If a child hates school
No matter how trite it may sound, a good teacher has good students. Why does one teacher want to go to a lesson, and there is no desire to meet another? Primary school children especially need a good teacher. Good is not kind and gentle in nature. They need a professional teacher who can captivate them, it is interesting to organize the educational process, find an individual approach, if necessary.
In Russia, the learning process is still inflexible. So that the child listens to the material and carries out homework, he is often intimidated and transferred to the category of doubles. Of course, with this approach, the student’s self-esteem drops. If the teacher does not believe in his ability, then he himself doubts that someday he will be able to learn to read or count. Often a child goes in cycles only to get good grades.
Another reason a child hates school is a bad relationship with classmates. Here he needs help from both the parents and the teacher.
If the child is humiliated
This can be manifested both by peers and teachers. If you can survive the humiliation of classmates, then disrespectful attitude from the teacher hurts especially painful.
Teachers tell us what a child should do at school to learn successfully. If the student does not understand this, behaves badly, often the teacher begins to "educate" him in indecent form. Teachers often report a “bad” child to the class, talk about his imperfect education, and allow him to speak negatively about him and his family. All this is regarded as disrespect for the child and his humiliation. No matter how a schoolboy and a bully a schoolchild may be, a teacher should not cross the boundaries of what is permitted. Until teachers learn to do this, teaching children at school will be problematic, and the crisis will continue in the curriculum.
Bullying
In modern processing, it sounds like bullying. They begin to offend, bully, ignore, laugh at him, steal his things. At school, bullying is especially common. The main goal of bullying is to humiliate a person, causing him physical and mental suffering.
Here's how to recognize school bullying:
- The child often returns home with bruises and scratches.
- He often lost things.
- A schoolboy is trying to find a reason not to go to school.
- The child does damage to himself.
- Trying to run away from home.
What should parents do? Here are some suggestions:
- Listen to the child and calm him down.
- Explain to him that he is not to blame for anything.
- Tell that everyone is mistaken, and this does not mean that you must pay for your misconduct all your life.
- Try to solve the problem with the child: understand the logic of peers, the meaning of their actions. It is necessary to explain to the child how to behave in a specific situation and with certain people.
Educational activities
Besides the fact that the educational institution provides children with the necessary knowledge, it also has other important responsibilities. The school’s work with children is as follows.
- A visit to the families of schoolchildren to assess the conditions of their residence and education, to identify the socially dangerous situation of the child.
- Organization of psychological and pedagogical education of parents through classrooms.
- Education of schoolchildren in legal issues.
- Preventive conversations on safe behavior for children.
- Organization of meetings between schoolchildren and law enforcement officials.