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Show Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 1983 2A 1 Change Self Esteem Learn Them Now Good Study Habits Necessary Discipline Problems Need Help T o Make Most of Education RON KNOWLTON Review Staff A teenage boy slumps back in his chair and stares into the wall ahead of him. DAN CARISRUH Review Stalf and hold off until the last minute. Thats where the problem becomes evident ' The grades seem to come easy 'in high school and junior high. 1 It doesnt take much to get the ; As Bs. The or about studying feel complacent Ms. Kochenour said many students also try to take on other responsibilities such as a job or even a family, all of which makes the importance of managing time an even greater factor to a successful pollege career. length of .most honor rolls in the secondary schools would make it ap ; pear that being above a 3.0 gpa is the norm instead of the exce- ption. good study habits are easy to teach. The learning skills center at the University of Utah will teach 400 to 500 students a year. Follow-u- p studies which the center has done on those who attended the study skill classes shows that most all students have had a marked changed in their gpa. The one thing which is harder for the skills center is the attitude of the student. If there is a bad attitude, lack of motivation or absence of goals, then the student will have a very hard uphill Maybe the grades come too easy. A second, and even more es.. A student may never have to sential aspect to higher educatake a book home. Television, tion according to Ms. sports activities and social Kochenour, is the attitude which . groups will take the lions share the student has about learning of the students time. And yet and how active he is. Some stuMs. Kochenour said parents Ithe report card may give the dents will open a book that is reand school districts can accomthe impression that their quired for a class and start to plish much to better prepare the i child is a good student. read it. They feel once they have student for the rigors of higher But for those who go on to fur completed the assigned pages education. there education at a unive- their studying is done. That may ther ; rsity or tech school, the have worked in high school, but But Ms. Kochenour didnt limawakening to the world of stud- in college they really need to in- it developing good habits as late as high school. Some study ying may be rude. teract with the material. skills can be taught even in ele.All those years in the public The skills needed to master for mentary school. 'school system and now the finds his study habits lackluster. Instead of As and Bs he Some Good Study Habits "finds himself getting by with Cs. .iThe once honor student is now Some areas which will benhours studied, problems comefit the students are: trying to compete in a much pleted and pages written. Relarger setting. Depression and ward yourself after a Develop good reading hab'anxiety make the learning expe-- ; its The world of education is successful completion of a rience sour. the world of reading. It isnt goal. j Incoming freshmen at a uniunusual for one class to have Attend class. Too many six text books required. Fifty freshman, enjoying their new versity soon find out that their to 100 pages a night also isnt freedom, skip classes, think..study habits will have to be uncommon. Probably the best ing they will only have to sharpened and strengthend. They will have to make up years way to develop good reading read the assignment to catch .of bad study habits within a cou- -' skills is to read. up. But college courses, more Iple of weeks if they plan to make Schedule your time. Bad than any other type of learnthe most of their higher educamanagement of time is one of ing, rely mainly on the lection. the main reasons of bad ture. Valuable information for According to Edie Kochenour, grades. A student who has a test will be lost if classes are director of the learning skills mastered his time schedule missed. center at the University of Utah, with planned times for study, Learn to take good notes. the biggest problem which inrelaxation and classes will be Lecture notes will be the coming students face is the man-- ; able to overcome many other main source of exam preparaagement of time. The program problems which she may tion. They will also lead the is much tighter in high school have. student to other areas in reand junior high. The day is Have one place for study. quired texts which will be imvided into regular class periods. This should be a place which portant to know. f; But when classes start at the is free from distractions like Learn study skills as early university, the structure changes. radio, tv or the refrigerator. It as possible in education If a should also be a place which .They have two hour class high school student has masbreaks. No ones looking over is only used for study. Daytered good study habits while Ms. Koche .their shoulders, there is little pressure then the dreaming and other activities nour said. All the extra time should not become associated student will be that much which the new freshman has with the place. ahead of the game when he Goals are the backbone of enters a university where the .may seem like freedom to the student. There is no parent any study schedule. Goal competition for good grades looking over the shoulder to is stiff. yourself with pages read, urge her to study. She may get to par-'en- ts stu-de- nt -- -- -. i . year. 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In extreme cases, the juvenile court system becommes involved. How is a truancy case dealt with? In most cases through the co-pun- ty districts truancy intervention program. At school they are in- volved with counseling, special programs and the parents are called in. k "DATE 1 RELATE, For an inteil gent fun way to moot other, begins, , , OassMfledl court. pointing to a small crack in the wall, I wish I could hide in one of those cracks, he tells Milton Shaum, Davis School District director of pupil personnel. The boys low self esteem is interfering with his schoolwork. School no longer seems very important. Shaum earlier talked to a girl who wanted to be transferred to another school in the district, She told Shaum that without the change, she no longer wanted to go to school. The problem? A group of girls had picked on her throughout the school year to where school had become an extremely unpleasant place for her to be, Shaum explaines. The two students are typical of students who enter and leave Shaums office during the school : ILsiEiesM he Sometimes, teacher or principal at the school m,ay need to begin denying privileges to the student. Whitesides said in some cases he has denied students who were fighting the privilege of going out onto the playground for two or three days-- a punishment that was often quite effective. Shaum said students who are inattentive, disrupting the class bothering other kids or fighting, often are just reflecting some of the problems they are experiencing in their own lives. The kid may have been whipped to pieces the day before by mom or dad, or his parents may be splitting up, or his brother was picked up by the law. Shaum said teachers have to make judgement calls all day When the case becomes extreme, it often goes to juvenile By The students will usually be ordered back to school with a rehearing in three weeks. Some are fined $1 for every class period they miss. Others are asked to attend a parenting class. The child will be required to attend the class for four weeks, one night per week, with their parents. Sometimes, too, in a move that will completely take a child by surprize, a judge will order the child not to attend school. The child will be told that attending school is a privilege, not a right, and if the child is found on any school campus, that child will be arrested. That really shakes them up, Shaum said. He had one girl called him up afterwards pleading to be allowed to come back to school. Shaum said the district has a very good attendance record on the whole, however. Over 95 percent of the students in the district regularly attend classes. Only 2 percent of students (or about 200 kids in the last two years, have required special attention from Shaum. Discipline problems for elementary and secondary (junior and senior high) students are for the most part quite different, Steve Whitesides, director of educational support services in the district, says. Whitesides, a former elementary school principal, said discipline problems with elementary school age children rarely involve truancy. The child has a hard time staying on task or keeping his attention on his work. In other cases, the child may be disrupting the class, bothering other kids or not paying attention in class. These kids usually have a hard time completing their school work, Whitesides said. Others are involved with bullying or fighting out on the playground. Sometimes two of the best kids in the school will be teed off and out cracking it, Whites;-idesaid. Students caught fighting need to be reprimanded, Whitesides said. If fighting isa continual problem with a student, the long. Many inservice and educational aid are provided to teachers to help maintain discipline in the classroom. Recently an assertive discipline class was held for teachers. There, teachers were taught they also need to recognize and make a fuss over positive behaviors as well as negative behaviors. With this method, a lot of kids are looking for attention and they get it, too, Whitesides said. By emphasizing positive behaviors, it helps to cut down on many of the negabehaviors tive, attention-gettin- g children will attempt. The district also relies heavily on the teachings of child pschol-ogiMilton Glasser with films and inservice workshops. Glasser teaches that teachers should make students responsible for their own behavior, Shaum said. Glasser also teaches that children need to own their behavior and question how the behavior is effecting their st lives. Using teacher effectiveness another training, method, teachers are taught to describe how a childs behavior is effecting them, rather than scolding the child for the negative behavior. Uncontrolled bad behavior can spread throughout an entire classroom like chicken pox, Shaum said. It can reach a point where learning becomes impossi- s ble. ' :; Fortunately, however, few classrooms ever reach this point. |