The time to start teaching skills, attendance and punctuality is Day 1, Week 1. For many school staff, the time is now. Remember: You can be the best teacher or adviser of the planet, but if students are late to be taught or advised, no matter how good you are. The bottom line: children must be present if it is to work successfully with them.
The bad news is that many students have problems promptly. The good news is that delay can often be quickly and effectively addressed. Punctuality is another fundamental skill school we constantly without waiting forever and completely to teaching. Once trained to be on time, many children show a lasting improvement. Here are the latest solutions for your last students, our 4 steps to stop the delay:
1. Motivate
The motivation is usually the most important step to stop late because so many students see no reason to be on time. Convince students that the conduct in-time is an essential skill, often generates a change more than any other approach. You can find some examples of motivation-makers on our website (http://www.youthchg.com/nws3moti.html), and hundreds more in our "maximum-strength motivation-Makers" book. You can also try such interventions, but as you know, you will use more than just one or two motivational strategies to achieve the desired impact.
Intervention
Ask students to complete fun multiple-choice questions like this from our "Quickest Kid Fixer-Uppers Book, Volume 1:" Julio forgot to pay the water bill again. Julio discover that the water company a) inform Mai b) Fully understand that Julio "forgotten" c) quickly turn off its water.
A fun follow-up to this particular question: ask students to determine how the loss of water will affect Julio. Be sure you note which will be able to operate its own bathroom, plus, be sure to note the connection charges he'll face. Help your students understand that punctuality at school prepares them for mastering the punctuality skills they will need as an adult - especially if you ever want to color or shower.
2. Identify the causes
Students have problems with delays for many reasons, including distractions, cultural differences, skills shortages and low motivation. To build the most effective time in the problem, identify and address the source of the delay. For example, an elementary student may be late because the lack of adult help to wake up and prepare for school each day. His problem could be improved by giving the ability to schedule a wake-up-and-get-ready calendar to arrive on time.
Intervention
Make a table with two columns and call it "My Countdown to School Schedule." If you are not in a school environment, simply substitute the name of your site in the title. In the left column, the time of listing. In the right column, list the tasks that the child should do to prepare for school. The graph shows the child with the tasks they must do and when to do so. As the child can manage tasks, including waking up, washing dishes, eating and going to school. This external structure can help substitute for that lack of adult guidance.
3. Step-by-Step Help
Most students can not simply be to start immediately on time more than you can only lose 10 pounds immediately or immediately start speaking Swedish. This is part of the reason that the consequences can be a particularly ineffective way to improve attendance and punctuality. Once the source of the delay has been identified, offering step-by-step help. Many students were not fully qualified to perform routine tasks such as timely completion of tasks at home or at a meeting before the bell. Stop assuming they have these capabilities. The consequences and rewards will not compensate skills. Plan to teach these skills in a way that is as systematic and organized as the approach he would use to teach spelling or algebra. So as you can not rely on the consequences or rewards instead of instructions for building skills in algebra, one can not rely on the consequences or rewards rather than instructions to build competence in matters of punctuality. Potentially, this is a completely different way of thinking and managing on-time.
Intervention
Make sure you teach students when to stay home from school - and when not needed. We have a poster that is jokingly, but you could make your own version. To see the poster, click here to skip school http://www.youthchg.com/poster2.html #. To make your own version, the legitimate poster "Find the reason to stay home from school, then use cartoons to portray the poor rather than reasons to stay home from school. Include the most common excuses, like: "I did not know what day it was," and "I missed the bus," and make sure that your version generates smiles and laughter, just as our manifesto does.
4. Expect a gradual change
Students whose delay is mainly due to the lack of skills or cultural differences, may experience an improved only gradually. Mastering new skills takes time and practice so hold reasonable expectations. Students often detect and react negatively to impatient adults'. The pace of change may be faster in students whose delay is mainly due to motivational problems. When finally convinced that punctuality is important, these students can change very quickly.
Intervention
Reconsidering the wisdom of the common practice to suspend students chronically absent. The suspension does not teach these skills. Suspension teaches "stay home" skills, plus it has no parallel in the working world of adults. Ultimately, we are preparing students for the real world where they can expect to be "prompt, either immediately or unemployed" - a catchy line that you might want to repeat to the students.
Do you like these solutions to the latest students? There are hundreds of methods for the most truant, at risk, and unmotivated students late on our website (link below.) Work with apathetic students, in the absence of delay and should not be so hard if you try some of the novel, more effective interventions.
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