Date Posted: 5/9/2012 1:44:17 PM
Posted By: bony maurice Membership Level: Silver Total Points: 214
Parents have the sole responsibility of taking their children to school at the right time. It is important to consider first if the child is ready to learn. Taking them to school at the wrong instance may just hinder proper conceptualization of facts. Some of the factors are physiological while others are psychological. Maturation is one important factor that must not be overlooked. A child who has not attained sufficient physical and mental development will find it difficult to learn tasks which require a higher level of development in mind and body. However, maturation cannot take place in a vacuum. All students of low IQ show considerable evidence to the effect that when lack of normal environment stimulation is long, continued maturing intellectual functioning suffer. Maturation and learning operate together in development and we should not focus attention on one to the exclusion of the other. Experience is also a major determinant of readiness to learning. Learning often requires prerequisite information. This is usually obtained as a result of past experience. The necessary experience for new learning may be obtained from the community, home and the school. These background directly influence the quality of nutrition, level of language development, health of the child, availability of new information and level of motivation of the child. The lack of appropriate experience to a child is popularly leveled cultural deprivation and this produces a cumulative deficit. The child who is already limited by past deficit cannot profit from new and advanced levels of stimulation. The kind of experience most crucial to success in school learning are those that centre on the development of spoken and written language and those are experiences most lacking in the culturally disadvantaged homes. The emotional attitudes and personal adjustments must also be considered. Many children may have the capacity to learn conditions which tend to block learning. Such emotional problems may result from unmet needs, over-protection, rejection, previous experiences of the school, jealousy from others, parental over_indulgence, excessive negativism, general home insecurity, general feeling of inadequacy among many other problems. These experiences can bring emotional problems and personal maladjustment which may interfere with learning. For instance, learning outside ones home area, lack of prerequisite knowledge and ridicule from teachers and fellow learners. We yet again have another factor as relevance of materials. Children respond more readily to materials which are more relevant to their immediate lifespan than which is less relevant. Therefore, learners are only ready for schooling when whatever is offered at school at that time is up_to_date to them. Let the required materials be also ready before children venture into learning. Money should be available to pay fees, buy books, uniform and many other necessities. A well staffed and stocked school be in place for smooth learning process.
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