Is it important to get good grades in school? Should you expect your kids to get good grades in school? The modern concept of school assessment
All parents want their children to study well. In our understanding, “studying well” most often means getting “five” and “four”. AT Russian school it is customary to put marks at each lesson, for homework, for oral answers, for independent and test papers, With primary school until the last call.
In many countries, such a system has been abandoned, and marks are given only for verification work- Tests and exams. What is better? Maybe it’s worth keeping the child in good shape, encouraging him with good grades and whipping him up with bad ones? What if he suddenly relaxes and fails to pass the test decently? Or still give the opportunity to study in peace ... So, what is good and what is bad in daily assessments?
And in order to make reading the article a little more fun for you, it will be accompanied by photos of various entries by teachers and students in diaries and notebooks. Sometimes they are shocking, sometimes funny, but, believe me, they are all very original. Well, anything can happen.
How do grades motivate students?
It is believed that, having received a bad grade, the child will think about the level of his own knowledge and want to improve it. That is why the first estimates in primary school schoolchildren receive not for knowledge, but for handwriting and cleanliness in notebooks. It was at this time that the attitude of children to grades began to form.
The fact is that not everyone can immediately write beautifully and accurately. The endless struggle of the child with naughty pens and notebooks, with his own temperament and natural data begins. To this struggle is added the disapproval of the teacher and the reproaches of the parents. Other children can, but why don't you try?
But the child would be happy to try, but miracles do not happen in a second. Today he wrote a little better than yesterday, but still not as perfect as classmate Masha Ivanova. And again he gets a triple.
As a result, instead of correcting the handwriting, the child does nothing because he does not believe in success. This becomes a habit, an absolutely indifferent attitude to grades and to learning in general is formed, which is very difficult to change.
What should parents do if already in the lower grades they see a problem with handwriting and constantly lower grades?
First, wait to rebuke the child.
It is better to support him and cheer him up. Explain to him that bad grades do not mean that he is not able to learn and that he will never succeed. It’s just that you can’t immediately, you need to move slowly, and sooner or later your grades will also improve.
Second, don't overreact to every evaluation.
Of course, you need to fight against dirt in notebooks and crooked handwriting, but consider the characteristics of the child. Perhaps something you can just close your eyes. Pay attention first to knowledge, and secondly to handwriting. Decide what is more important to you. Some adults never learned to write legibly, but that doesn't make them dumber.
Can grades be only good?
Grades for knowledge are, of course, more important for the educational process. The older the student, the more subjects appear in the program, and all these subjects are necessarily evaluated.
The child has just studied at 4 and 5, and suddenly “triples” appear. What's happening? The parents are unhappy, the child is upset. Do not rush to blame the child for laziness or blame everything on adolescence. Try to remember yourself and your friends. Did you understand and love all subjects equally?
Of course, there are children who school program easy and simple to digest. They equally understand the Russian language, algebra, chemistry, English and biology. It happens that way too. But far from everyone. There is no need to set talented children as an example, driving your own child into uncertainty. It is better to talk about what exactly does not work and do not like.
If a child is a pronounced humanist, the exact sciences may not lend themselves well to him. Or vice versa - mathematicians hardly talk about literature. In this case, you can focus on what really works. The rest is kept at an average level. Of course, “twos” should not be allowed, this will definitely not improve the certificate and will not help with admission.
If something does not go catastrophically, it is better to agree on additional classes so as not to completely launch the subject. But don't get hung up on ratings. "Five" in history, literature, Russian, but "three" in chemistry, algebra and physics? Well, what to do. Choose humanitarian professions with your child.
Own rating system? Why not?
In order not to worry about every lower grade and understand how success is at school, you can agree with the child on a scale of important, less important and not at all important. Based on this scale, build not only your attitude to grades, but also an understanding of the educational process in general.
How to do it?
Decide what the child chooses among school subjects. Throw all the main forces in this direction. Here, follow the grades, do not miss anything important, upgrade your knowledge and skills. Other items, even if they take only second place in importance, still keep it under control, try not to run it. At least in order to pass the exams and get a decent certificate. The rest of the scores - for forgotten notebooks, blots, carelessness, and so on - do not discount completely, but do not make a tragedy out of each.
Of course, the choice of the field of knowledge should not be done in the first grade. Typically, a child's inclinations become clear closer to high school. Before self-determination, it is worth strenuously engaging in both the humanities, and the exact, and natural sciences in order to better understand yourself and your goals. The main thing that would be good for both children and parents to understand at school is that grades are far from the most important thing in education. Understanding is more important!
School grades raise many questions for parents:
Can a child be scolded for bad grades?
How to punish bad grades
How often to praise for good grades
Is it possible to pay money for good grades
Is it possible to punish household chores
All these questions can be combined into one - how to treat school grades correctly.
Maya Makarova, a psychologist at the Apparently Invisible studio, a fairy tale therapist, a specialist in family well-being and parenting, continues to talk about the adaptation of children at school and the main points in the formation of a child's success.
We all want our children to study well, but what do we mean by this? Do good grades always reflect real knowledge, skills and abilities?
Despite the efforts of psychologists to abolish grades at least in elementary school, they still remain in the form of "sun-clouds", "pluses and minuses", "emoticons", etc. Of course, it is important to know how the child copes with this or that task.
But! Let's see what this leads to.
A child, especially in elementary school, is not yet capable of analytical thinking at such a level as to say to himself: “I got a low mark, which means that I know this rule worse than others, I need to repeat it.”
Most likely, your child will think that he did not cope with the task and EVERYTHING. He will not develop this idea further. If there are several such situations, then the thought “I can’t do anything, I can’t do anything” will be constant for him.
Assessing the work of the child leads to the fact that the child correlates these assessments with the assessment of himself. as individuals. Because due to the mental characteristics of age, the child does not know how to separate one from the other. In general, the pursuit of good grades teaches a child to compare his results with the results of other children, and not with his own.
Children begin to think more often about why the other succeeds, and not about what “I need to do to make it work for me.” That is, they do not pay attention to their own actions, which led to an unsatisfactory result. In addition, the desire to get a good grade distracts from the learning process. Gradually, the child will lose interest in learning if he fails to get good grades.
Due to the lack of interest, the learning process will begin to require a lot of effort from the child. This means that he will get tired faster and after some time will finally leave the thought of his success.
Will that suit you? Not! Then we help the child.
! So, in order to increase the chances of getting good grades and maintaining interest in learning, you need to:
- Being interested in things at school, ask what the new child learned, what he learned.
- Create situations where the child can apply the acquired knowledge in life.
- To say that his grades directly depend on the efforts made and the time spent.
- Avoid situations where the child will be afraid of getting a bad grade, because he will be scolded or ranked as a loser.
- If, nevertheless, your child received a bad grade, then you need to reassure him by reminding him that learning is always accompanied by mistakes, as well as a story about your mistakes and what you personally did in these cases.
In the comments, you can ask your questions to the psychologist Maya Makarova.
We have all attended educational institutions at one time or another. At first it was Kindergarten, then - a school, and after - a technical school or university. AT modern world there are other opportunities for education - learning at home, with the help of teachers, in private educational institutions, on the Internet - in specially organized courses. The multitude of options and access to information make it perfectly legitimate to ask: why do children need a school? And how necessary modern system assessments - why do we need assessments in school?
Why school for a child? Many years ago, Spock said that school is necessary for children in order to find their place in life. All kinds of subjects that are taught to students are only means to achieve this goal.
This theory certainly has a right to exist. But, unfortunately, both parents and teachers do not always understand it. But why study at school, why knowledge is graduated there, should be realized first of all by the parents themselves.
Moms and dads need to understand that school is a completely new stage in the life of a baby, a kind of crucial moment. And you don't have to make it mandatory, learning should be fun. After all, even adults who work at a job they love achieve much more success, live longer and happier than those who are forced to go to work like hard labor.
And to make learning really interesting and exciting under the power of parents. It is they who are responsible for how the child will relate to school in general, and to the process of obtaining knowledge in particular. Only parents can choose the educational institution that will meet the needs of the child, choose a really good teacher and a class with a pleasant atmosphere. And if such a task is beyond the power, then the school can really do harm, and it is better to give preference to home schooling.
Why else is needed? Another major task educational institutions is socialization. For children, the school is an example of communication in life. At school, children learn to live in society and interact with others, and not with friends chosen according to personal preferences, but with those who are. But many experts (teachers, psychologists and advanced parents) are sure that such socialization sometimes does more harm than good. After all, an adult has a choice: whether to contact unpleasant people or choose a more suitable social circle for himself. For many children (hidden, withdrawn, introverted), forced socialization can cause serious psychological health problems. Therefore, only a really good children's team with professional teacher who knows how to organize a group of children and smooth out conflicts.
As for the issue of obtaining knowledge at school, it is also quite controversial. Of course, teachers give children a lot of information in various fields of science. But far from all of it is assimilated by students, and only a minimum of the data received is deposited in the head for a long time. As practice shows, high-quality classes at home with less effort give children much more useful knowledge.
But it is worth noting that when choosing homeschooling as an alternative to a regular comprehensive school, you need to remember that homeschooling requires constant organization, perseverance and perseverance on the part of the parents themselves, who pass these qualities on to their children.
If you do not have the desire, ability and strength to organize the education of the child at home (by any means), it is better to abandon this idea and shift the function of imparting knowledge to the school.
Why grades in school? Estimates at school are designed to give a qualitative description of the knowledge or skills of the student. Students elementary school they still cannot understand how the mark depends on their personal efforts, and only parents can explain this to them. But in order for the explanation to be complete and correct, moms and dads themselves need to perceive the assessments objectively.
In fact, all people are pleased when they are praised. And for children, praise plays especially important role, and for them it is important when it can be demonstrated to someone else. An excellent materialized gratitude for every adult can be a diploma, gratitude or a bonus at work.
If there were no grades at school, and they would be of a verbal nature - in words, it would be difficult for parents to understand how the child worked in the classroom and how he learned the material received. A first-grade student can proudly talk about the praise of a teacher who actually praised his good behavior, not knowledge.
Thus, assessment is a method to convey to parents the success of their baby and suggest what exactly needs to be paid attention to. In addition, teacher assessment helps to praise the student for aging, for achievements and for progress in some areas.
In fact, the assessment system in the school has many positive and negative sides. And how the child will relate to the marks depends solely on the parents. Evaluation should not be viewed as an evaluation of the mind and personal characteristics child, it only reflects the knowledge and skills of the student in specific topic. Low scores only indicate that some topic needs to be further developed and taught. That's probably what grades are for in school.
Thus, only parents can decide whether a classical comprehensive school their child. And only they can influence the child's perception of the process of learning and getting grades.
Walking along the school corridor, she asked everyone she met the question: “Why do we need grades at school?”. At first, the question caused a slight stupor: “It’s obvious!”
Then - some reflections: "But really - why?", Then - a variety of answers (from "So that parents know why they scold us" to "Estimates are needed in order to know which of the teachers to give a good salary , and who to scold at the teachers' council). The most unexpected for me was the answer of a seventh-grader: "What for? To go to university and get a good profession."
But in fact, according to our deuces and fives, we are evaluated when entering a university or some other educational institution. When applying for a job, they look at our diploma or certificate and draw conclusions with whom they are dealing. After all, the employer, opening our insert with estimates, immediately draws conclusions about what we are capable of and whether he should actually deal with us. At home, looking at the diary, our parents decide whether to praise us or punish us. From our assessments, it is decided how the evening will go. Will we wash the dishes or go for a walk with friends with ease in our hearts. Or, even worse for us, whether we will go to our grandmother in a remote village for the summer, or we will be sent to the sea. Our friends often ask: "How are you doing with your studies? Zapor or not?". And then the girls will begin to torment their young people with the same questions. And what is the answer to that? To tell the bitter truth and lose your credibility as an "A" student in her eyes, or lie about your deuce in algebra and be cute and fluffy. And these questions are from relatives or just acquaintances on the way home on the bus: "How are you at school?". What is the answer to this? And why is everyone so interested in it? Are we really "appreciated" by everyone: mothers in childhood, then a beloved girl, and even a boss at work.
If we take a dictionary and stop at the letter "O", then the word "assessment" in pedagogy is the opinion of the teacher (another verifier) about the level of knowledge of the student (the quality of his work) expressed in a number. I mean, it's just an opinion. An opinion that affects our entire subsequent life. And it’s clear that we can’t change this in any way, and even as a great minister, we can’t cancel school grades. And, on the other hand, why? After all, with good grades, our life will go uphill. Our mother will adore us and buy us a lot and allow us different things, while saying to her friends: “She’s studying well with me,” while experiencing great pride. And it's always nice to please your beloved mother. Our friends will also be proud of us and cherish our friendship, because who, if not us, will help them in Hard time and let me write off. Beloved, in turn, will brag about the fact that she has such a good "I". Well, let's not even talk about work. After all, no one else has respect and good relationship bosses did not interfere, and the bonus at the end of the quarter will not be superfluous.
It turns out that our life begins with school and in the future depends on it, or rather on ourselves. After all, what will be our life, what will be the opinion about us, attitude towards us and our financial condition depends only on us and no one else. Already at school, we decide our fate, we decide it thanks to a simple five-point system. What will it be like? Everyone has their own. The main thing is to "evaluate" everything correctly.
AT recent times there are more and more publications about school grades. Moreover, negative opinions about assessment and the assessment system in general are heard more and more often, and some parents even think about teaching their child at home in order to avoid “this leveling”, i.e. evaluation.
In order to understand this issue, we must first clarify that there are two concepts - evaluation and mark. Despite the fact that we use the word “assessment” all the time, we usually talk about something completely different. So what is the difference between assessment and mark, and is it worth it to be so afraid of them?
Let's start with the fact that a mark and an assessment are different concepts, although there is a substitution of concepts when we say - an assessment, and we mean - a mark, which happens very often.
AT explanatory dictionary Ozhegov's word "assessment" is interpreted as follows - an opinion about the value, level or significance of something, someone.
A "mark" is the designation of a student's grade. Simply put, an assessment is a qualitative characteristic of a student's knowledge or skills, and a mark is a quantitative characteristic.
How many people there will be, so many different opinions about the assessment and its significance. V. Sukhomlinsky said this many years ago: “From the first days school life on the thorny path of teaching, an idol appears in front of the child - a mark. For one child, he is kind, condescending, for another - tough, ruthless, inexorable. Why this is so, why he patronizes one, and tyrannizes the other - the children do not understand. After all, a seven-year-old child cannot understand the dependence of evaluation on his own work, on personal efforts - for him this is still incomprehensible. He tries to satisfy or - at worst - to deceive the idol and gradually gets used to studying not for personal joy, but for marks.
Since a small student cannot yet understand the dependence of a mark on personal efforts, the task of parents is to help him see and understand this. But for this, parents themselves must perceive the mark objectively.
Agree, every person is pleased when he is praised. Moreover, it is much more pleasant when this praise can be demonstrated to others. For example, a diploma, gratitude, and even a bonus at work are materialized gratitude.
Imagine that grades were canceled at school and only verbal assessment remained, i.e. verbal assessment. Your child comes home from school. How do you know how he worked in the lesson or learned the material? The first grader will tell you that Natalya Petrovna praised him and said that he was doing well. In a day, you will find out that these words were said for cleaning the class or for good behavior. But for the student lower grades it is not so important for what there was a praise, the main thing that was.
Someone will say: “Well, let it be. They praised it!" Praised. But after all, a child does not go to school to lift chairs or wash the blackboard. He goes for knowledge. And how to determine at what level this knowledge is in a child? This is what the mark will show.
There was such an opinion of parents: “My child is not interested, it is not necessary. Therefore, he does not want to learn it and the grades are bad. Why should a child learn something that he is not interested in? Just for the mark?
Interestingly, do we adults always know what we will need in 10-15 years? Are we always interested in doing what we do? Not at all. In life, we constantly have to do what is not interesting. And, besides, to do it qualitatively, even though no one will put a mark. Or do you want to say that household chores - cleaning, washing, repairs are done with great interest and desire? We do it because it is NECESSARY, it is a necessity.
The same is true at school. There are things that need to be done and done well. Otherwise, the child will not be able to study further. If a first grader has not learned to write and read correctly, how can he learn further? If the student did not learn the multiplication table? And here again the mark shows the level of this knowledge of a particular student.
And if in the process of assessment the teacher can praise the student for what he tried and did better today, then the mark characterizes not so much the process of work as the result. How often schoolchildren, having received a bad mark, are indignant: “I taught at home!” It is possible that he taught, but could not show it, could not answer the question, complete the task, write the control, i.e. the result is not visible. Imagine that you bought bread, and it turned out to be raw, unsalted and generally inedible, and the baker says: “I made it!” Would you like this bread?
You can write a lot about grades and marks. There are both positive and negative sides, but the positive, in my opinion, is much more. The main thing is to understand that a mark is not an assessment of your child, but an assessment of his knowledge and skills on a specific topic. Get the mark right. Perceive a low mark not as a personal insult, but as an indicator of a weak link in knowledge and a guide to action. A low mark only means that this topic needs to be taught, worked out, consolidated. Parents will treat the mark properly and the child will perceive the mark as an indicator of knowledge and strive to improve it through knowledge.
What do you think about marks?
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