How to determine if a child is ready for school

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

There comes a time when any parent asks himself the question: “When should I send my child to school?” Undoubtedly, there are generally accepted standards, but each of us is individual. Children are all different, someone is able to easily assimilate school material at the age of 6 and study well, while someone will not be able to simply master the proposed program. Then how to determine the readiness of the child for school? This will be discussed in the article.

School Ready

To answer this question, three aspects must be taken into account at once. They are in close relationship with each other.

Aspect 1

First of all, the physical readiness of the child for school is considered. It is established as a result of passing a special medical commission. All results must be recorded in the child's card. If at the moment he has any diseases, then admission to the educationalestablishment may be delayed

Aspect 2

A child's readiness for school from an intellectual point of view. He should have developed attention, memory, perception and other important processes of brain activity. If this condition is not met, the child will be in a difficult situation, because the requirements for him will be based on the assumption that all students have an equal level of development. Various psychological methods are used to assess this parameter. They show how the child has developed speech, thinking, coordination, attention, fine motor skills of the upper limbs, short-term memory, and so on. During the diagnosis, the child may be offered elementary mathematical problems. Tests are also possible that characterize his knowledge of the world around him and his willingness to act according to a certain algorithm.

Successfully completed tasks are counted to determine the level of intellectual maturity. If this indicator is more than 80%, then this is an excellent result, the average degree is in the range from 55 to 80%, lower numbers are a low score.

Note that by the age of six to seven, a child needs to know the following points:

- address of residence, hometown;

- name of your country and its capital;

- Full name of parents, information about their place of work;

- sequence of seasons, features;

- month and all days of the week;

- differences between domestic and wild animals;

- he must navigate in his environment, space.

Aspect 3

A child's readiness to study at school is also determined by personal motivation. He should have an interest in gaining knowledge, mastering new skills and abilities. This parameter is clarified during the conversation. It determines how much the child strives to communicate with peers, the level of his independence, initiative and other features. The readiness of the child for school largely depends on the parents. Their role is to explain to their child why people go to study, what they get from it. The child should receive exclusively positive information about an object unknown to him - the school. It should be remembered that everything said by adults, he takes literally.