LIFE STYLE OF CHILDREN IN SCHOOL

LIFE STYLE OF CHILDREN IN SCHOOL

NAME-MONALISA MOHAPATRA

1. INTRODUCTION2. ACADEMIC POTENTIAL3. SOCIAL SKILLS4. CHARACTER BUILDING & SELF CONCEPT5. BROADENING HORIZONS6. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES7. CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION:-• While you've been the primary teacher in your child's life

for the first few years, it's time to broaden his horizons and let others help him develop into the smart, confident and respectful adult you know he'll become one day.

• When you send your youngster off to school, think about all the ways the staff and students influence your child.

• According to Irene Shere, Director of the Early Childhood Consultation Center, "The way that teachers interact with children and the way that teachers encourage interactions between children affect each child's development in important ways.

ACADEMIC POTENTIAL:-• Ideally, the school's role is to bring each student to her

individual, maximum academic potential. While its effectiveness may vary from school to school, it's not enough to teach the ABCs and 123s and call it a day.

• A significant amount of schoolwork throughout the grades is dedicated to helping children become expert problem solvers and solution-seekers, skills that will come in handy in just about every personal and professional aspect of a child's adult life.

• Therefore, in addition to an academic skill, problem solving is an essential life skill.

SOCIAL SKILLS:-• He's got straight A’s across the board. But without

some healthy social skills, your youngster won't make it through his first job interview, and he'll probably be going stag when prom night rolls around.

• The school plays an important role in helping children learn to interact positively with their peers and teachers. They learn about healthy relationship skills and develop through interactions, both in the classroom and on the playground.

CHARACTER BUILDING & SELF CONCEPT:-

• Now that he's getting straight A’s and he snagged that first job, it's time to focus on his character and his values. Character building is not an alternative to academic achievement, but rather an essential adjunct of it.

• Just as the school provides lessons on reading, writing and arithmetic, from the very beginning it also focuses on helping kids learn about compassion, respect, empathy and integrity.

• At first it begins with basic lessons like "raise your hand to speak" and "keep your hands to yourself." Later, it develops into argumentative debates about moral and social issues.

• By the time your child graduates high school, he should have a fairly firm grasp on his own beliefs, values and how he views himself.

• If he feels he's an inept communicator, it's unlikely he'll pursue a career in law or public speaking.

• It is this understanding of who he is and what he values that will help determine his academic, professional and personal pursuits.

BROADENING HORIZONS:-• The school can introduce a child to a multitude of

opportunities. • From early on, children are often exposed to different

nationalities, cultures and traditions, helping to shape their viewpoint of the world around them.

• Field trips and interactive projects let your child try out new things, while each different subject in school gives her a taste of what could await her in the future.

• As children get older, many schools offer a variety of extracurricular opportunities to further whet your youngster’s appetite for the future

• In a single place, your child can join the swim team, sign up for cheerleading, volunteer to work with younger children, run for school treasurer and give chess club a try.

• All of these experiences help to develop a child’s interests, build self-esteem and shape the course of her later academic and professional life.

• Your youngster's bedtime passed 30 minutes ago, your grasp on sanity is tenuous at best, and he's still bopping around the house like a wind-up toy with no end.

• To make matters worse, his body knows he's overtired, which is making him cranky and loud. You can feel the temper tantrum storm brewing.

• At this point, your child probably doesn't have the ability to calm down on his own, so it's up to you to employ some soothing activities to help him get back to a relaxed state.

• Whether it's a temper tantrum in the grocery store, a hissy fit at nap time or a meltdown at bedtime, an arsenal of soothing tactics can get you through tough situations.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES:-• Social skills activities? Some people would argue that

kids hone their social skills whenever they play together.

• In fact, it’s likely that social play--particularly pretend social play--functions as a safe testing ground in which juveniles can learn appropriate social behaviors.

• Pretend social play also involves “mind reading” skills--the capacity to decode each other’s intentions and anticipate each other’s actions.

• But kids need more than free time and pretense to master social skills. They also need guidance about which social behaviors to emulate.

• People who are good at interpreting facial expressions can better anticipate what others will do. They are also more “prosocial,” or helpful towards others.

• Here’s a classic game that encourages kids to practice self-control. Kids freeze like statues, then one child--who is “it”--must try to get them to break character and laugh. The first one to laugh becomes “it” for the next round.

• Assign teens to study a political or moral issue and have kids analyze at least two opposing points of view. To fully understand these points of view, kids may interview real people.

• The goals of these social skills activities are (1) to get teens thinking about the employer’s perspective and (2) to have teens apply their insights to making a good impression at a mock interview.

• To begin, help teens choose from a short list of jobs. They will be applying for the job they choose, but they will also take turns serving as employers. So when you offer your list, include only those jobs that kids can understand from the employer’s perspective.

• Once teens have chosen their preferred jobs, ask them to think like employers. If they were hiring for this position, what kind of person they you want?

• Have teens work together on an advertisement for the position. And help them come up with a short list of questions to ask in the interview.

• After the interviews, thank the volunteers and start a group discussion. Ask applicants to share their feelings. What made them nervous?

• Which questions were the hardest to answer? Then ask everyone to consider what worked well and what didn’t. Based on these experiences, create a list of interview “dos” and “don’ts.”

• Cognitive psychologists call this sort of thing a social script. There are many different kinds of social scripts—including scripts for meeting people, shopping for groceries, sharing a meal, being a guest, being a host, receiving gifts (or compliments), interviewing for a job, attending a funeral, and offering sympathy.

• Social scripts give us a framework for understanding how to behave in various common situations.

CONCLUSION:-• At Schools for Children, we believe that the best

education starts with respect for students as individuals and responds to each student’s unique potential, abilities and needs—whatever those may be.

• As an education incubator, we create and sustain lively and successful schools and services. We work to fill the gaps in education by creating, piloting and supporting new programs.

• As a management and consulting group, we help schools thrive by providing high-quality administrative and professional expertise—freeing them to focus on the much more important activity of educating kids.

• As a thought leader, we advocate for educational quality and equity and offer professional development opportunities for educators, as well as support, resources and events for families and others.

• Just as with other abilities, children vary widely in how well they are able to form friendships and gain peer acceptance.

• Because students grade each other, children gain different levels of social status at school. Social status represents the child’s standing or position relative to other members of the class. Some children are well endowed with social skills.

• They are popular and very well liked by all or most of their peers. Some seem to have a knack for making friends and getting along with others.

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