In a sports-driven society, it will be a challenge to make
sure that we as teachers are able to balance both academic expectations and
extracurricular activities. It is important for teachers to emphasize the
importance of academics to be just as much as the emphasis that is on
extra-curricular activities. This can be done by teaching students to balance
their lives with time management. Students need to learn to set time aside to do
homework each evening. Just like in sports, students should also set goals for
their academics. Teachers should have the students write down their academic
goals for the semester or year so that they can look back at them at the end of
the year and see what they have achieved out of their goals. It is important to
write them down because that makes people more likely to push forward to
success. Overall, it is important to have high expectations in schoolwork in
addition to the high expectations of the extracurricular activities.
I like the idea of students setting goals for their academics. In sports, children and teams have goals, and that should carry over to academics. I too think it is good to write the goals down to see if they were met or not.
ReplyDeleteI also love your idea of setting goals and then looking back on which ones they've achieved. I strongly believe that schoolwork comes before sports. Teaching students time management and how to balance their schedule just as we do everyday as adults is a great idea especially doing their homework every night. This will teach them to be disciplined and have their schoolwork done before their fun activities or sports! Work always comes before play! :)
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