What is the readiness for school, and on the development of what qualities does it depend on?
Before going to school, a child forms a positive opinion about school education. He wants to gain new knowledge, to become more mature.
A child's psychological readiness for school is noticeable on the first day of schoolPhoto: GettyReadiness for school life is determined by three criteria:
- desire to learn;
- the level of intelligence;
- the ability to control oneself.
At first, you can interest your child with a beautiful school uniform, a school bag, and bright notebooks. But in order for joy not to turn into disappointment, the desire to study at school is important.
How to help your baby prepare
Parents help their child prepare for school.They teach him letters and numbers. But, in addition to reading, writing and counting, you need to prepare for school life psychologically. To do this, it is enough to tell how children are taught in lessons, to form a positive image of the teacher and the children's group. Adaptation is easier if the child goes to the 1st grade together with children from his kindergarten. A positive attitude from peers has a good influence on the child. The teacher should also be an authority for him, whom he wants to imitate. This will help the child better understand the material in the first grade, and find a common language with the teacher.
How to determine readiness
Check your child's readiness for school, parentscan during a home conversation. At the same time, you cannot put pressure and impose your opinion. Let the child draw a school building or look at a picture book on this topic. At this time, it would be appropriate to ask whether he wants to go to school or if he is better off in kindergarten. There are special tests for this. When a child enters school, a psychologist will determine how developed his will is, the ability to complete a task according to a model. At home, you can find out how well the child can follow the rules with the help of a game or by giving simple tasks. A prepared preschooler can copy a picture from a model, easily generalizes, classifies, highlights the features of objects, finds patterns. By the end of preschool age, the child should develop special rules for communicating with adults and peers, adequate self-esteem, not too high or low. You can find out the child's opinion about future admission to school by talking to him. The child should want to study, have a well-developed will and thinking, and the task of the parents is to help him in everything.
