GETTING your teen again to highschool after the lengthy summer time trip will be tough – particularly once they’ve developed lazy summer time habits or, as has been urged in latest stories, are petrified of what lies forward at school.
The Olive Press speaks to 2 public college lecturers about find out how to encourage teenagers and be concerned of their schooling.
Anna Moreno Rodríguez – teaches in Almanjáyar, Granada
Anna is a arithmetic trainer on the La Paz institute in Almanjáyar, Granada – a faculty labeled as having ‘particular problem’ due to social points in its municipality. She has taught since 2006.
She advises: “Motivation for youngsters is all the time troublesome, particularly after the vacations, because it’s troublesome for them to return to work after missing routine in the summertime.
“If there’s a great relationship with the scholars, extra targets are achieved. When college returns, lecturers attempt to current the content material in an entertaining and enjoyable approach, by engaged on initiatives and utilizing new methodologies and sources – each guide and digital.”
Contemplating the age-old drawback of children bunking off college, she says: “We have now some protocols the place the households are notified first, but when this doesn’t work, they’re referred to social companies.”
No one needs the social companies at their door – so how can mother and father keep away from this?
“Lecturers can advise households on habits, examine methods, battle decision and emotional intelligence, however the important thing factor is the involvement of the households in schooling and values at dwelling. It is a drawback at this time.”
She thinks that some mother and father have overpassed what’s occurring with their children’ education and needs to be extra concerned.
She says: “Dad and mom can continually entry the educating and studying course of, with face-to-face and phone appointments and on-line messaging techniques.”
One in every of these is iPasen, which folks can set up in your cell phone.
From 2022, college students who’ve failed their ultimate exams in June can now not re-sit them in September: this has caught some mother and father unawares.
“From this educational yr, there’s now not a September restoration possibility, besides within the first yr of baccalaureate. The analysis of scholars is steady and it’s not solely exams that depend. It’s troublesome for a scholar to fail in the event that they did nicely within the first trimesters.
“If a scholar is repeating the yr, a personalised follow-up is carried out at our faculty in order that they enhance and meet the goals. If they should do higher at one thing, the households are known as.
“To encourage a repeating scholar, you must make them see that doing a yr once more isn’t punishment, however that they have to be extra mature of their work.”
Eleuterio Leal Figueroa – secondary trainer in Alcala la Actual
Eleuterio works in secondary colleges, and baccalaureate, and at present teaches on the IES Alfonso XI in Alcala la Actual, Jaen. She has been an English trainer since 2006.
“It’s all the time troublesome to encourage college students, however after the vacations, it’s tougher! Attempt to make them see the significance of doing nicely academically for his or her future work and encourage them each day.
“With the mother and father, we attempt to make them see the significance of a great schooling for his or her youngsters’s future and demand that they be fixed.”
“The mother and father can entry particular details about their youngsters throughout the course, in addition to examination grades, utilizing tutoring techniques (such because the iPasen cellular app).”
“Attempt to persuade the coed that they need to make an effort and work extra to finish the course.”
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