When students move to a new school, they sometimes face problems. How can schools help these students with their problems? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer.
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As students progress in grades, they face challenges. In addition to changing academic and social demands, they experience physical and emotional changes. Although children are continually engaged in the process of adapting to new challenges, educators and health professionals agree that certain critical transition points are stressful and require support. Parents and educators help children cope effectively with their varied school experiences.
Physical and emotional challenges: For many children, schooling requires the first prolonged separation from parents. Children may be required to sit quietly for short periods at table and listen to directions. Students must share activities, supplies, and attention, and relate to new children. The transition to the grade school may require moving to a new building and a longer school day. Students adjusting to the routine and structure of the school day develop sense of responsibility for completion of assignments and homework. In the early grades, children adjust to a world outside the home. They form new friendships, learn teamwork and may develop special interests and skills.
Mastery of the fundamentals needed for the rest of their school careers is required. Children acquire basic reading and math ability; they learn computation, how to read words and how to read for meaning. They are required to answer questions about whom, what, and where, which gives them information about character, plot and setting.
Summarizing, teachers help students by anticipating causes of stress and normalizing the experiences. This is how students are helped minimize any negative impact. When the new school year starts, teachers can prepare children for the transition by arranging visits to the new school, scheduling meetings with new teaching personnel. Once the school year starts, a big sibling program can help teaming up a new student with older ones.
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