Factors that Determine Success in School

Factors that determine your success in school
1. Social relationships
2. Stress levels
3. Curiosity
4. Emotional Intelligence
5. Family
6. Health
7. Fitness
8. Sleep
9. Confidence

Social relationships
*Friendships may play a bigger role than you realize in your academic performance.

I. Kdg. On/social relationships play a big part in how well and how much u learn.
• Make sure you are choosing your friends wisely!
• One study found that strong kdg. Friendships reduced the amount of behavioral problems
• Those hang around children with bad behavior tend to emulate bad behavior. Stress levels
*stress can be a motivatior to get things done, it can also be an impediment to high academic performance.

How to reduce stress levels.
1. Manage time wisely.
2. Get organized
3. Create a good study environment
4. Know your learning style
5. Practice Visualizations
6. Develop Optimism
7. Get enough Sleep
8. Use Stress Management Techniques
9. Learn study skills

1.
Enough time
Set up a schedule
Break up your studies into small chunks.
Be aware of your attention span i.e., age

2.
Peace of mind if u r organized.
Colored coded folders
Note taking
Mental clutter brings disorganization

3. Aromatherapy (peppermint oil)
Classical music

4. we all don’t learn In the same way.
Visual, Kinesthetic or auditory learner
5. Imagery/proven stress management techniques.
Imagine yourself achieving
Positive thinking

6. Optimist; more easily shrug off failures and multiply successes.
Intrinsic self esteem

7. Sleep: higher performance w/enough sleep. Little sleep, students will miss valuable information, poor memory, poor performance.
Power naps.

8. Stress; breathing techniques

9. Study Skills; outlining, highlighting, repetition, study buddy. The more prepared u are the less stress

Curiosity
*Might be dangerous for cats, but essential for students who want to succeed in school.

50,000 students were studied; curiosity was > of an impact than expected traits like ;hard work and conscientiousness.

Always embrace new ideas and try new things.

Emotional Intelligence
Activity
Blank sheet of paper: draw a line down the center. One side label Feelings
• Left side: list as many of the feelings you can remember that you have had today.
• Leave spaces between words
• One minute for writing feeling words.
• Label the other side Behaviors
• Pick a positive feeling you wrote.
• Opposite to that feeling write what you remember you did in response to that feeling; ex., laughed, said thanks, ect.
• Pick one feeling that was not pleasant and write down what u did.
• Pick out the feeling that made u most uncomfortable and write down what u did.

U can see how our behaviors are connected to our feelings.
We all respond to feelings, but not in the same way.
Feelings flow from our emotions.

Emotions generate our feelings and our feelings are messages that tell us that we are experiencing an emotional event.

What we do in response to these feelings is a measure of our emotional intelligence.

* Help children to channel their feelings into positive behaviors and to develop self control.

What do children need to learn first?
Numbers? ABC’s?

*As it turns out, What children need to develop is their social intelligence and emotional intelligence, essential building blocks for all future learning.

The ability to communicate well; to delay gratification

Be in tune to another’s feelings and point of view.

To think before speaking; consider how your response will affect another.

How to problem solve.

Emotional Intelligence is linked to’
1. improved academic performance
2. avoiding risk behaviors
3. stronger friendships
4. decrease in violent behavior
5. staying in school - higher graduation rates.
6. less disruptive behavior; fewer discipline problems
7. improved health, happiness and life success.

Empathy--feeling cared for

Accountability - sense of follow-through

Respect-considerate behavior
Trust - belief in the people and school.

A positive school culture = determines overall success academically.

How can u apply these concepts at home?

Empathy: r u tuned into what is going on in there life? Do u have a sense of how they are feeling? Find ways to open communication.

Accountability: Accountable to chores, participate in family’s day-to-day life? Not taking the easy way out.

Respect: Does your child feel that u treat them with respect?

Trust: Do you trust them? Tune into feelings, listen carefully and problem-solve together.

Family
• What does family have to do w/ how your child perceives school?

• play a big part in shaping attitudes towards school and school performance.

• Model behaviors u want; read together and problem solve together.

Health
• If you take care of your health,you will take care of your grades.

• There is a relationship between physical activity and academic performance.

• This includes; fitness; gymnastics, balancing, sports. Those who stay active are more likely to do better in school.

• Sleep; regardless of age, sleep is essential in performance.
• Increases attention, concentration and cognitive functioning.

Confidence
• Positive thinking; sometimes thinking you can do something is all you need to be able to actually do it.