How Attitude affects Students?
Despite its potential benefits, maintaining a positive attitude toward learning is often easier said than done and even frustrating at times.
When learning seems particularly difficult, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture and feel like you’re not making progress. With this in mind, here are a few tips for maintaining a positive attitude towards learning even when the going gets tough.
We know for a fact that positive thinking has many physical, mental, and emotional health benefits. Consider these strategies to inspire a positive attitude and teach your virtual school student how to think positive this year and beyond:
1. Review and reframe your motivation
Our motivation to learn is one of the most powerful factors affecting our attitude to education, so let’s start with it. Intrinsic motivation to learn is your long-distance fuel on the road to educational success. Invest in developing an internally driven motivation and it will last well past any pay rise and promotion. You will thank yourself for it in times of doubt and struggle.
2. Track your learning goals
If your motivation is your driver, your goals are your destination. Of course, you can go for a drive just because you enjoy driving around. But if you need to get somewhere (like those social media marketing skills), you need to know where you’re going. Having clear, SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-bound) goals can enhance your motivation to learn and help set clear expectations.
Tracking your progress will help you visualize your success and will boost your motivation, particularly at times of struggle. This will also help you develop another vital ingredient of your positive attitude to learning — sense of self-competency.
3. Observe how your changed attitude will affect your life.
To be able to hurtle through all the difficulties that lie ahead of you in your journey towards self-betterment, you need to figure out exactly what this supposed change could bring to your life. Will changing your attitude mean a happier family or social life? Will a change in your attitude mean a more successful career or business? Fix your mind on the things that would come as a result of your attitude change and you will have a greater chance of reaching your goal.
4. Be in the right company.
As they say, “Bad company corrupts good character.” You don’t expect yourself to be able to change if you go on surrounding yourself with people who possess all the negative traits that you want to change. Consider befriending new people, especially those who are optimistic and have a healthy attitude towards life. You will see that your effort to change will be easier with these kinds of people as friends.
5. Believe in Yourself that you are able to change.
Often, the greatest obstacle between us and our goals is ourselves or our inability to trust in what we are able to do. If you don’t believe in yourself or believe that you or your life can change, it just won’t happen — you will either never start, or give up quickly so you won’t have even given yourself the opportunity to succeed.
School Information Initiative by Shakuntala Vidyalaya.