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Show 7, 2C t, Vi,u "1, Lakeside Review North, Wednesday, Auq. 10, 1983 A Change Self Esteem Learn Them Now Good Study Habits Necessary Discipline Problem? Need Help DAN CARISRUH fc dents also try to take on other for the skills center is the attitude of the student. If there is a responsibilities such as a job or bad attitude, lack of motivation even a family, all of which makes the importance of manag- ..or absence of goals, then the stu- ' Review Staff The grades seem to come easy I in high school and junior high. I It doesnt take much to get the As or Bs. The length 'of most honor rolls in the second-- 5 ary schools would make it ap- pear that being above a 3.0 gpa I is the norm instead of the excep tion. 1 IMaybe the grades come too . , ing time an even greater factor to a successful college career. A second, and even more essential aspect to higher educa- j j tion 1 easy. A student may never have to take a book home. Television,- - j sports activities 1 1 and social groups will take the lions share of the students time. And yet the report card may give the par-- f ents the impression that their child is a good student. But for those who go on to fur ther there education at a univer-- j sity or tech school, the awakening to the world of study ing may be rude. I All those years in. the public ! school system and now the stu-- j dent finds his study habits lack-- i luster. Instead of As and Bs he 1 finds himself getting by with Cs. The once honor student is now trying to compete in a much larger setting. Depression and anxiety make the learning expe- rience sour. ' Incoming freshmen at a university soon find out that their study habits will have to be i according Ms. Kochenour said parents and .school districts can accomplish much to better prepare the student for the rigors of higher education. The more informed the parent is about study habits, the better the student will be. But parents have only so much influence on the high school students. I would like to see more going on in, the high school in study habits. , Ms. to, Kochenour, is the attitude which the student has about learning and how active he is. Some students will open a book that is required for a class and start to read it. They feel once they have completed the assigned pages their studying is done. That may have worked in high school, but in college they really need to interact with the material. The skills needed to master for 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 :! ; . dent will have a very hard uphill battle. For parents, Ms. Kochenour says the most important thing is too maintain a good relationship With their child. Parents must have good communication with their kids. Whatever grade the child is in, Ms. Kochenour said now is the time to get him or her ready for higher education with good, their gpa. study skills. The one thing which is harder -- I with pages read, studied, problems completed and pages written. Reward yourself after a successful completion of a Some Good Study Habits yourself hours , sharpened and Strengthend. They will have to make up years of bad study habits within a couple of weeks if they plan to make the most of their higher education. According to Edie Kochenour, director of the learning skills center at the University of Utah, the biggest problem which incoming students face is the management of time. The program is much tighter in high school and junior high. The day is divided into regular class periods. But when classes start at the 'university, the structure changes. ;They have two hour class breaks. No ones looking over Ms. Koche their shoulders, nour said. All the extra time which the new freshman has may seem like freedom to the student. There is no parent lopking over the shoulder to urge her to study. She may get to feel complacent about studying and hold off until the last minute. Thats where the problem becomes evident Ms. Kochenour said many stu Some areas which will ben- cfit the students are: Develop good reading habits The world of education is the world of reading. It isnt unusual for one class to have six text books required. Fifty to 100 pages a night also isnt uncommon. Probably the best way to develop, good reading skills is to read. Schedule your time. Bad management of time is one of goal. Attend class. Too many freshman, enjoying their new freedom, skip classes, thinking they will only have to read the assignment to catch up. But college courses, more than any other type of learning, rely mainly on the lecture. Valuable information for a test will be lost if classes are the main reaspns of bad grades. A student who has mastered his time schedule missed. Learn to take good notes. Lecture notes will be the main source of exam preparation. They will also lead the student to other areas in required texts which will be important to know. Learn study skills as early as possible in education If a high school student has mastered good study habits while there is little pressure then the student will be that much ahead of the game when he enters a university where the competition for good grades with planned times for study, relaxation and classes will be able to overcome many other problems which she may - have. Have one place for study. This should be a place which is free from, distractions like radio, tv or the refrigerator. It should also be a place which is only used for study. and other activities should not become associated with the place. Goals are the backbone of any study schedule. Goal Day-dreami- . is stiff. RON KNOWLTON Review Staff A teenage boy slumps back in his chair and stares into the wall ahead of him. he begins, Sometimes, 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 im' portant. Shaum earlier talked to a girl wha 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 tremely unpleasant place for her to be, Shaum explaines. The two students are typical of students who enter artd leave Shaums office during the school treme, it often goes to juvenile By ' 1 ' , . . ! year. Most are sent there by teachers and principals. Many, however, come on their own. And most are there because something in their environment has gone wrong. -Truancy cases are the most common problems, that Shaum is asked to deal with. And most are teenagers. But occassionally an elementary school dge child will be found missing school. He recalls one elementary school kid who over a period of several years had missed enough days of school to equal an entire school year. The girl had what Shaum calls a collapsable parent. The girl continually complained of psaychosomatic problems and mom caved in at the least little thing, allowing the student to stay home from school. Collapsable parents often become educational neglect cases and are referred to the department of social services, Shaum said. In extreme cases, the juvenile court system, becommes involved. y How is a truancy case dealt with? In most cases through the districts truancy intervention program. At school they are counseling, special programs and the parents are called in.. . When the case becomes ex . The students will usually be .ordered back to school with a re- fighting the privilege of going out onto, the playground for two hearing in three weeks. Some are fined $ for every or three days-- a punishment that class period they miss. Others was often quite effective. Shaum said students who are are asked to attend a parenting class. The child will be required inattentive, disrupting the class to attend the class for four bothering other kids or fighting, weeks, one night per week, with often are just reflecting some of the problems they are experientheir parents. in move a Sometimes, too, cing in their own lives. The kid may have been that will completely take a child by surprize, a judge will order whipped to pieces the day before the child not to attend school. by mom or dad, or his parents The child will be told that at- - may be splitting up, or his brothtending school is a privilege, not er was picked up by the law." a right, and if the child is found Shaum said teachers have to on any school campus, that child make judgement calls all day . ' will be arrested. long. ediica That really shakes them up, inservice and Many Shaum said. He had one girl tional aid are provided to called him up afterwards pleadteachers to help maintain disci- ing to be allowed to come back pline in the classroom. to school. Recently an assertive, disciShaum said the district has a pline class was held for teachers. .very good attendance record on There, teachers were taught they the whole, however; Over 95 also need to recognize and make a fuss over positive be- - , percent of the students in the district regularly attend classes. haviors as well as negative beOnly 2 percent of students (or haviors. With this method, a about 200 kids in the last two Jot of kids are looking for attenyears, have, required special at- tion, and they get it, too, Whtention from Shaum. itesides said. By emphasizing Discipline problems for positive behaviors, it helps to and secondary (junior cut down on many of the nega-- ; and senior high) students are for tive, attention-gettin- g behaviors the most part quite different, children will attempt. Steve Whitesides, director of ed- -' The district also relies heavily . . ucational support services in the on the teachings of child pschol-ogi' district, says. v" Milton Glasser with films t Whitesides, a formerelemen-- ; and inservice workshops. Glasser emphasizes that tary school principal, said discipline problems with Elementary teachers need to make the school age children rarely in- room a positive stimulating, volve truancy. v environment where The child has a hard time" children are involved with their staying on task or keeping his education. - Glasser teaches that teachers attention on his work. In other cases, the child may should make students responsibe disrupting the class, bothering ' ble for their, own behavior, ; other kids of not paying at- Shaum said. Glasser also teaches that children need to own tention in class. These kids usually have a their behavior and question bow hard time completing their the behavior is effecting their " school work, Whitesides said. lives., ' Others are involved with buleffectiveness teacher Using' lying or fighting out on the training, another method,, teachers are taught to describe playground. Sometimes two of the best how a childs behavior is effect- ' kids in the school will be teed ing them, rather than scolding off and out cracking it, Whites- the child for the negative behave , . ty ileges to the student. Whitesides said in some cases he has denied students who were court. : , ' . . , st - . . ides said. ior. Students caught fighting need to be reprimanded, Whitesides said. If fighting is a continual problem with a student,- the teacher or principal at the school m.av need to begin denying priv can spread throughout an entire classroom like chicken , pox, Shaum said. 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