2. 1. INTRODUCTION
2. ACADEMIC POTENTIAL
3. SOCIAL SKILLS
4. CHARACTER BUILDING & SELF CONCEPT
5. BROADENING HORIZONS
6. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
7. CONCLUSION
3. 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.
4. 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.
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6. 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.
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8. 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.
9. • 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.
10. 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
11. • 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.
12. • 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.
13. 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.
14. • 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.
15. • 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.
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17. • 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.
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19. 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.
20. • 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.
