How to motivate children to go back to school and achieve their goals
The back to school has started. Soon the youngest of the house, and the teenagers will return to the classroom to face their obligations and face a new course full of challenges. This period of transition between the holidays and the academic year should not only be invested in acquiring the necessary material to be able to fulfill the demands.
During these days you also have to resume the routine and adapt to the school year. You also have to recover the motivation to face these months of obligations and responsibilities and achieve all the proposed goals. Before setting foot in the classroom, it is important that students are willing to do everything to achieve their goals and obtain the best grades in this academic year.
Security and backup
Although the previous school year the grades were good, starting a new school year can make students fear for failure. It is for this reason that it is important that students begin this course with security, knowing that whenever they put effort, goals can be achieved. To achieve this status, the first step should be to teach the support they have at home.
Another strategy, as indicated by Indalencio Rosales, social educator, parents should look for reasons that make children interested in this future. If, in addition to security, they see that there is a prize to reach this goal, the feeling will be much better. These rewards they should never be material, but for example that students imagine a summer without studying for recoveries.
It is also important that they have objectives concrete Y affordable. If, for example, the past course there was any suspense, the goal should be to complete the current school year without any pending matters. All these ends can be changed throughout the course if it is appreciated that there is potential for it, but it is important that the child is able to fulfill this mission.
Tips back to school
As has been said, the period of the return to school is not only reduced to preparing the school material. It is also necessary to adapt the student to this return to the classroom, for this from the Hospital Sant Joan de Deu The following tips are provided:
First year of school:
- Bring them to visit the school before the first day, and explain what they will find when the classes begin.
- Do not overprotect the little ones, as it can cause them a loss of autonomy and self-confidence.
- The parents should transmit joy and bring the change in positive, in such a way that they transmit this emotional state to their children.
Primary school and high school:
- Transmit the culture of learning so that they do not perceive the school as an obligation.
- Know what their children do in class, since motivated parents generate children committed to learning.
- The first weeks of September are ideal for ordering the room for the next course: save what happened last year and buy the books and school supplies for which you are about to start.
Damián Montero
