Importance of Planning in Studies

Children can often get carried away with the free time they enjoy after schooling hours. The unusually long schooling hours can make children lethargic once they return home. The tardiness leads to procrastinating their home-work and daily studies. Furthermore, with parent's being held with overwhelming work schedule, they often neglect their children's home schedule and their activities.   This behavior if prolonged, can have a significant negative impact on the child's academic performance, thereby negatively affecting their grades. Parents and schools together play a significant role in ensuring a healthy balance between study and games, is maintained during the child's free time. The parent's role is to ensure the balance is maintained while, the school play an important role in framing this balance.

 To ensure a decent balance is maintained between study and play, it is important that children have the right resources not just to play but to study as well. Firstly, parents must ensure that the children have an adequate space to study. The study place should be well lit, have a table big enough to accommodate their books. The space should be such that all the necessary study materials are available at hand, so as to reduce the wastage of time taken in searching for materials during the study hours. Materials, if not easily available during the study period can reduce the effective time the child spends in studying. The space should be created in a manner that instills and motivates learning. A space with inadequate amenities will significantly lower the child's concentration levels. Parents should consult the children on their preferred settings for learning and studying, as this will enable customization of  the room to the child's preference, thereby effectively enhancing the space utilized for studies. Second, in-order to make effective use of time, parents must create a schedule that allots sufficient time for learning, completing home-work and play. The schedule should be such that the students are not rushed into completing all subjects in a given day. The timetable can include a set of subjects to be covered for each day. Prioritizing subjects and home works based on deadlines is also part of scheduling. Parents should prioritize subjects based on their child's abilities, and should then create a schedule allotting more time for those subjects requiring the most attention. This kind of scheduling and priority setting results  in making effective use of study time.

The result of such planning and scheduling can have a tremendous benefit in the mental health of the child. With schedules being set, children will have sufficient time to play, eat, sleep and study. With the absence of an organized schedule, children will procrastinate their studies for future date until it becomes too late to either study or complete the tasks at hand. This will lead to stress and mental disturbance thereby reducing the child's effectiveness.

Global Indian international School in Abu Dhabi conducts regular training sessions for parents where-in parents are educated about the process and benefits of maintaining a schedule for their child. Children are also given appropriate care and attention in the classroom to ensure that subject materials are easily comprehended, reducing the time spent on home-learning. This is done through additional teaching materials such as -videos, pictures, games, tutorials.