How could We Make Lazy School Children Active?

Written by: Mir Aqa Atabar

In classes, teachers teach the same to all students. Most of the students could learn easily but some of them are lazy and could not learn the lessons.

The writer/producer AEPO has talked to some students, teachers and a psychologist about this problem.

A student in one of the schools in Kabul city says every year I fail in one or two subjects. Due to my failure, my parents become sad and they do not want to talk to me.

A teacher, Fahima Kohistani says: when I evaluate a student and could not get a desirable result, I become sad and get a headache. I am not sad for he/she could not learn but when a student’s parents say that your job is just teaching and if the student could not learn, it is not up to you.

Aisha, a student says: our teacher teaches a lesson once if we do not learn it, we ask the teacher to repeat the lesson again but she does not repeat it and says us to ask from the students who have learnt the lesson.

A psychologist, Abdul Ghafoor Emad says that the home environment differs with the school environment. If a teacher does not have a good behavior with a student at the beginning of the class, the student would leave the school.

Families have confident in teachers, but if a child fails in the exam, it would create misbehavior between child’s parents and teachers.

Which method is useful to enable the students to become interested in the lesson?

Mohammad Sabir, a resident of Maidan-Wardak province says: My brother could not learn school lessons. I started to teach him when he was coming back home. With every mistake he was making, I was encouraging him for learning and if he had been failing in the exam, I was not punishing him but I was telling him to try so that you would succeed next year.

A teacher says that all the students in the class are divided into three categories: intelligent students, middle and lazy students. The lazy students always sit in the last seats of the class. I ask them to come and sit beside the intelligent students. The teacher should be able to draw the students' attention to the lesson.

 Besides that, colorful teaching materials also encourage student for learning. The competition also encourages the students to learn.