Improving Performance of Students- Personal Guidance and Encouragement is the Key

Most Powerful Tool

To create a positive and engaging classroom encouragement is one of the most powerful tools a teacher can use.No matter how it is often the key to unlocking untapped potential in children, especially those who have trouble learning. Below is a look at the power of encouragement and some simple steps that parents and educators can take to encourage students during the learning process.

Encouragement the key to reforming Classrooms

Effective teachers know that your words and actions have the ability to lift students up or break them down. It is important to know that encouraging words and actions are often internalized by students and have the power to motivate them to succeed. Well encouragement can even be the difference between students completing school and giving up on themselves.

Simple Ways to Encourage Your Students

Yes there is no single recommended formula for encouraging students to succeed.No matter how every young learner is unique and will respond differently to encouragement.The best way is that there are some universal ways to show encouragement to students inside and outside the classroom.

Ways to Create a Culture of Encouragement

"Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is."

- Anne Frank

Affirm a unique talent or skill you notice in your student the path to student confidence begins by creating a culture of encouragement. Teachers and parents can build a culture of encouragement by embodying the belief that every student has expected potential and is the ability to accomplish their goals. Additionally, you should strive to focus on students' positive behaviors and actions as opposed to their negative ones.

Make Sure that You Praise Even the Smallest Efforts

I think it is a wonderful opportunity when students are accustomed to being recognized for achieving major learning accomplishments and milestones. Encouraging students is not enough, students typically receive praise when they learn how to read, complete a grade, or graduate from elementary school or high school. However, a true culture of encouragement involves praising students for small achievements and modest improvements in their efforts.

Formally Recognize Students for Their Accomplishments

Well schools with a culture of encouragement are known for recognizing students for their accomplishments in newsletters and at ceremonies. It is a good chance that others post inspiring messages on social media and post students' names on plaques and on banners in the hallway. When students receive this type of formal recognition, they are reminded that they have the power to achieve success.

Provide Effective Feedback

Praise is one of the most simplest tool and so praising your students is one of the most effective and easiest ways to lift their spirits and keep them working hard. Teachers who excel at praising their students do it publically as well as privately, both verbally and in writing. They send notes home to parents (when appropriate) and have special events during school to acknowledge the achievements of their students.

How to Set Realistic Expectations and Celebrate When They are Met

It is said that your students don’t have to be optimists to set unrealistic goals and expectations for themselves. No one can become fluent after only one semester studying English. It happens that when those same students fail to meet those out of the water goals, they get discouraged. I want to stress here that sometimes the best thing for your students is for you to be a voice of reason. Help them realize what realistic progress looks like, and work with them to set goals that are challenging but still reachable. When students meet these goals, take time to celebrate their accomplishments.

 Bring Excitement

Oh I can’t believe I am saying this but excitement is contagious, and showing your students that you are happy to be with them and guide them on their journey will make a difference in how they view your class. Be energetic. Be creative. Infact learning is fun and let your students see those positive feelings on a daily basis. This is a accumulated evidence that when they see how excited you are to be teaching them, they will be more excited to learn it from you!

Effectively Vary Your Teaching Methods

Little in the classroom is worse than doing the same thing day after day. Another strategy to help you connect is when you vary what you do in class, you will find that your students are more engaged and more excited to participate. In particular, when you vary your activities to meet your students’different learning styles, they will not only have fun but will find your teaching more effective. Try to include visual activities and oral activities.Whatever the reason use music and hands on activities on a regular basis. As teachers give your students a chance to use their hands and get physical with what you are teaching. Give them time to work with others as well as individually. You will find that when you meet your students’ learning styles, they will be more pleased about what they are learning.

Facilitate Effectively and Don’t Dominate

It may sound nice that for some of us teachers, it is easy to dominate the classroom and the conversation with our students. Anyone who teachers has to work well with people and be comfortable with public speaking, but sometimes we go too far. Needless to say that if you are talking more than your students are in class, you should probably think about stepping back and letting them do more of the communicating. Active learning is an instructional approach and when students play a more active role in class and in their education, they learn faster, better and with a better attitude. The simple act of letting them talk more will boost the spirits of frustrated students.