School years are, without a doubt, a very important stage in the life of every person, but at the same time quite difficult. Only an insignificant part of children is able to bring home only excellent marks throughout their stay in the educational institution. Most students experience serious difficulties in studying subjects. And of course, this cannot but worry parents. They begin to ask questions: “How to help a child if he is a poor student?”, “What can be done to rectify the situation?”
Reasons for failure
Often, fathers and mothers begin to solve this problem, not even due to the fact that in the diary of their son or daughter unsatisfactory ratings appeared. Parents think about how to teach their child how to learn, sometimes even with a slight tendency towards a drop in performance. However, before you begin to take any measures, you need to understand what factors contribute to the creation of such a situation. And they can be conditionally divided into three types.
Among them:
- the state of health of children;
- personal qualities of the child;
- social factors.
Let's consider them in more detail.
Child health
Parents of first graders, as a rule, do not worry about school failure. Indeed, at the very beginning of training, a teacher simply does not give his pupils grades. And only in some cases the teacher indicates to fathers and mothers that their baby is behind the program.
But, as a rule, the fact that a child reads poorly, considers, and masters school subjects becomes clear when he enters the second grade.
What could be the reasons for failure? Often they are associated with poor health of the child or with the presence of some developmental features. So, often sick children have to skip classes, and they begin to lag behind in all subjects of the school curriculum. In order to rectify the situation, parents will need to consult a pediatrician and conduct hardening procedures with their son or daughter.
If a child does not study well in primary school and at the same time has some features of the state of the body, for example, impaired vision or hearing, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, etc., then for his training it is necessary to use a special program. Its development and use are made even if such students attend the usual class of a general educational institution.
Often a child does not study well due to fatigue and the manifestation of asthenic symptoms. To eliminate this factor, parents should pay attention to the load that the student has to bear in the process of obtaining knowledge. It is possible that it will be too big for him. Of course, today the list of additional opportunities has expanded significantly, using which many dads and mothers seek to give an impetus to the enhanced development of the child. After all, it is so great when, in addition to the program that children go to school, you can get new skills in different sections and circles. But sometimes such a load leads to the fact that fatigue develops in the still fragile body, and, as a result, the child does not study well.
How to avoid a similar situation? Parents should carefully study the lesson schedule of their son or daughter. How loaded are they? Or maybe this endless walking around circles just exhausting them? How to proceed? Reduce the number of classes in the English language or stop dancing, canceling figure skating?
Before deciding on this or that step, you should pay attention to how the child is engaged in these circles. Does his visit bring him pleasure? Does it show any results? If the answer is yes, then do not cancel additional classes. Otherwise, the child is likely to suffer motivation for further studies at school, as well as his own self-esteem.
But sometimes it happens that parents simply do not have enough free time, and they don’t even try to enroll their little one in a circle. Nevertheless, they often hear the phrase “I do not want to learn” from their son or daughter. A kid or teenager gets tired very quickly, even when performing fairly simple tasks. In this case, parents simply need to sound the alarm. Such behavior, without a doubt, is a consequence of existing health problems. Unfortunately, many fathers and mothers often forget about such a reason, which gives an answer to the question “Why does a child study poorly?” If the student is absolutely healthy, then the need and desire for new knowledge will certainly appear in him. But this will happen only when there are no other reasons for the problem being studied.
Unreadiness for admission to school
Consider the personal reasons that a child is learning poorly. And one of them is the child’s unwillingness to go to school. In this case, psychologists distinguish two factors:
- Unformed child CPH. This abbreviation hides the student’s internal position, his moral readiness to begin training. In today's world, children are trying to instill knowledge almost immediately from the cradle. It is believed that one who goes to school should not only be physically fit. Today's first grader, as a rule, already knows how to read, write and count. However, this is far from all that is necessary to begin the educational process. The child should be psychologically prepared to become a schoolboy, which, as a rule, parents do not pay attention to. And if in the first grade the baby still manages to somehow adapt, then becoming a second grader, he can say: “I do not want to learn.” And there is nothing surprising in this. After all, such a student does not have educational motivation. In his mind, the game form of obtaining knowledge continues to dominate. It is possible that the baby just did not reach the stage of necessary maturity the subcortical structure of the brain, which is responsible for arbitrariness, that is, for patience and willpower, which are necessary for the successful acquisition of knowledge. How to teach a child to learn? Psychologists in such cases recommend not to rush the student with the tasks, because such children will need more time to finally adapt.
- Pedagogical neglect. It can also be one of the reasons that a child is learning poorly. Moreover, this factor occurs not only in those families where alcoholics and rowdy live. Very often a similar situation is observed where intelligent parents struggle to give their children only the best.
Negative emotional state
This reason for poor performance is also personal. Sometimes a child is excited or alarmed. For example, he is afraid of certain changes in the family, including the divorce of parents, the birth of a sister or brother, moving to a new place of residence, etc. What happened in the life of a little man probably scared him very much.
Schoolchildren, who are keenly experiencing the teenage period, in which there can be unrequited love, and unclosable relationships with peers, often do poorly. Of course, in such a difficult time for the child, other tasks come to the fore. How to fix the situation in this case? Here, an adult should come to the rescue, who, first of all, will help the teenager to solve the problems that arise before him, and only after that to establish his studies.
Sometimes, with his poor grades, the student is trying to get attention from the parents. It is possible he is in a condition that requires adult support. Or maybe he thus protests against a huge number of restrictions restricting his life, doing everything in spite of?
Needs
For what reason are almost every parent and school sounding the alarm today? A child in the modern world does not want to learn. A similar fact has been confirmed by many experts. Moreover, such a problem exists among children of various ages. And even preschoolers more and more upset dads, mothers and carers with a complete lack of interest in acquiring new knowledge.
The origins of this phenomenon lie in the field of modern technology. Children become heavily addicted to gadgets. They are attracted to technology and games. At the same time, the desire to study this world disappears. Children who are dependent on gadgets lose their curiosity. They do not want to learn to write, count, and just attend school. The blame for this lies entirely with the parents. The only way out of this situation is to wean kids from tablets and smartphones. But this is not recommended to be done right away, but gradually limiting kids and teenagers in the time they spend on gadgets.
Conflicts at school
We proceed to consider social causes. And one of the most common of these is considered to be conflicts between students. Of course, when the whole class considers the child a black sheep, calls names and teases, then it becomes quite clear, for example, why the child does not study well in mathematics. Bad grades do not depend on his intellectual abilities. Indeed, in this situation, I do not want to solve examples. The student, most likely, only thinks about how he can quickly go home or avenge his grievances.
Conflicts occur between children and teachers. The teacher can simply dislike the child and begin to constantly find fault with him for any reason, without even trying to help and clarify incomprehensible moments in his subject. Such situations are also not uncommon. Indeed, not all teachers in our schools are from God. Most often these are ordinary people who may well break loose. And in this case, their negative emotions are reflected in the children.
Difficult program
This is another social factor. The school curriculum in one or another subject can be either too simple or too complicated. And in the first, and in the second case, the child becomes bored.
What is this happening for? Sometimes children learn to read and write at home from a very young age. And if in three years they mastered the alphabet, then at school they are no longer interested in doing this. The child wants to play. How to fix this situation? Allow the student to play enough, gradually translating his activities into the framework of the curriculum.
It is also boring for those children who master the material very quickly. And if the lessons do not have an individual approach to each student, then they begin to "count the raven outside the window."
After all, the tasks that the teacher gives to the whole class seem such geeks uninteresting and too simple. With the complexity of the program, these children simply do not have time to connect to the process, starting to bring in the diary triples and deuces.
How to eliminate this phenomenon? The situation can be corrected:
- changing the school;
- transferring a child to a “strong” class;
- engaging with him on an individual program involving a tutor.
A child who is interested in studying will be happy to attend school.
Motivation
The beginning of any process corresponds to one reason or another. You can teach a child to learn if his interest in knowledge is warmed up.
Unfortunately, in real life, many parents punish their children for failure, while taking their success for granted. It is this attitude that leads to the fact that over time the child's interest in the knowledge gained disappears, and he begins to study poorly.
Of course, parents should approach the upbringing of their son or daughter with all severity and seriousness. However, this should be done in moderation. Psychologists recommend that fathers and mothers put themselves in the place of their child. If they don’t have the motivation to complete one or another task, will they take up it? Of course not! Children behave in the same way. What is the interest of the child in this case? Here, each student will need an individual approach. So, for some children pocket money will be an excellent motivation, for others - certain purchases, and for others - sweets or just family praise. But you should not deceive your child, and also apply punishment in the form of a belt to him. After all, a child, even if he begins to achieve some success in school, will gradually cease to communicate with his parents. Moreover, such a destruction of relations sometimes remains for life.
The control
Of course, children must learn and actively acquire knowledge. However, it is important for them to do this without intimidation, neglect and intimidation. Parents need to follow the advice of psychologists who recommend not too much control over their daughters and sons. Indeed, constant and very active attention to the learning process often leads to a child’s unwillingness to learn. It starts to seem to the student that only good grades are important for his parents, and all other areas of their children’s life, their feelings and emotions, are nothing. Such thoughts lead to a loss of desire to learn.
Responsibility
How to teach children to learn? To do this, parents will need to develop responsibility from them. This character trait will be a great help for all fathers and mothers. It will help to establish excellent relations in the family, as well as to ensure that the son or daughter went well at school.
How to achieve this? From the very first years of attending school, children need to be accused of responsibility for their actions. It is possible that a child’s similar attitude to his actions will persist for a long time.
Parents should teach their children to understand that much in life depends on aspirations, desires, and accomplished actions. Also, fathers and mothers need to explain to their child that the learning process is a kind of work, and very difficult. Moreover, its result will be the acquisition of knowledge about the world, which is impossible to buy for any money.