If a child grows up in a family, then sooner or later parents will need to ask themselves a very important question: is your child ready to become a first grader and what is his psychological readiness for school. Whether your baby will be able to realize that the time has come for responsibility and sometimes almost adult actions will depend on how prepared he is for this.
As a rule, the child’s school has its own, childish, naive hopes. For example, the prospect of meeting new friends - classmates with whom long-term friendship, excellent study, interesting subjects, attentive teachers will be made. But he still does not know what lies ahead: hard work, affirmation in the team, competition and not very interesting, and sometimes just incomprehensible objects.
When sending a child to first grade, one must take into account that the situation can develop in different ways. As soon as our first grader first encounters such difficulties, his eyes will go blank and his desire to go to school will instantly disappear. On the calendar, he will begin to count the days until the weekend, and then he will look forward to the holidays. Of course, this does not happen to everyone, but there is a chance.
How to make the child go to school with desire and be not indifferent to the educational process itself, and new achievements were easy? What can parents do to ensure that their psychological readiness for school meets the requirements that the institution puts forward? If you think about this issue in a timely manner, there will be a desire to learn, to discipline and to adequately respond to the comments of teachers.
First of all, by the beginning of the first school year, a future student should already have formed a certain psychological preparation with the help of adults. It is necessary for him for successful adaptation and good assimilation of educational material. It is important that schooling be the main activity for the child, so that he understands and accepts this consciously.
Psychological readiness for school is not directly related to whether your child can read the text well and how many numbers he knows. Although, undoubtedly, these skills will help him in school and teachers like to check them when they first meet a future student.
The psychological readiness for school, assessed by the teacher, allows the teacher to make a predictive forecast about the success of the first-grader. First of all, he draws attention to the student’s motivation, his desire for learning.
Before the kid goes to school, he should already have an interest in learning, in discovering everything new that surrounds him, but especially he should have a desire to work. Then the child’s psychological readiness for school can be evaluated positively.
Parents should encourage their children more for their curiosity, because it has long been known that the more you answer the questions of children, the more cognitive interest the child develops, and this undoubtedly makes him more prepared for the educational process.
Let the child understand that you believe in his strength, teach him to complete the work he has begun to the end, lay in him the ability to cope independently with the problems that have arisen. In addition, increase his self-esteem, stimulate the desire to cope with the most difficult task, because such an important factor as the child’s psychological readiness for school must be brought to perfection.
Of course, the help of adults in this is very great, at first it will be difficult for the baby to cope independently with the changed way of life. At school, of course, there are certain rules that a student will have to obey. It is known that the behavior of a child in a lesson almost always depends on educational motivation. If it is not there, then the child cannot concentrate, violates discipline in the lesson, does not want to work according to the plan set by the teacher, etc. It is completely uninteresting for such children at school to study, and it does not matter to them how the teacher will evaluate their work, what marks they will receive.
Psychological readiness for learning in a child’s school is a certain level of compliance that will allow the student to successfully fulfill the requirements of the teacher. The child’s intelligence, his skills developed during the preparation phase will help him succeed from the very beginning of his studies.
The psychological readiness for learning at school also determines how your child will perceive curricula. For example, the ability to generalize is an important skill that should be developed before the start of school time. It will help the child to perform logical actions, solve problems. Want to teach him this important process without much difficulty? Then ask him to retell the story you just read. Phonemic hearing is also part of a successful lesson. Simply put, this is the child’s necessary ability to correctly hear sounds in words, and this is also an integral part of such a parameter as psychological readiness for learning at school.
If you want your child to keep up with his peers and enjoy learning, teach him in the form of an cognitive game, and try to conduct school readiness tests a year before school. This must be done in conjunction with a child psychologist. Only he can give you sensible recommendations for the further development of the child. You need to do this in advance, because in this case you will have time left to correct the existing problems.