Improvement Areas in Promoting The Quality Development of a Child

What are the methods of teaching?

What are the Teachers’ perceptions on poor academic performance?

What are the Students’ perceptions on their environment and poor academic performance?

Methods that could be used to carry out this research:

Sampling method : Teachers and students will be taken from different primary school for interviews.

By data collection: A review of existing literature and analysis of available information of students’ environment, and attitudes towards classrooms activities, methods of teaching.

Analysis: by identifying the key themes in the data collection and using it to address the questions and develop the hypothesis to be tested by further thematic analysis.

Identifying Potential Policy Responses: The review of relevant policy approaches, and identifying how these issues can be identified.

By addressing the potentials for policy in supporting the issues for the childrens’ poor academic performance.

Criticisms

It is generally accepted that a child’s achievement in school will be determined by the factors both inside and outside the school environment. The big question is what can be done to improve the academic performance of children. So many issues are raised, instances are

Environment: it is an important issue to address when it involves poor academic performance. The majority schools in the urban areas of Lagos state suffer from poor environments for the reason that the Government do not look into issues like this. Technology has a great impact in enriching the environment. Provided classrooms are equipped with projectors and computer systems, the children would be able to have individual ways of learning and finding out facts for themselves just like the constructivists classroom. John Dewey advocated constructivism, Maria Montessori based her educational model on constructivism so as Joseph Bruner. Constructivism proposes that learning environments should support multiple perspectives or interpretations of reality, knowledge construction. Matuserich (1995).With all this listed children would be active learners, with also an active peer support group through interaction.

Classroom Management: The population of students in classroom is another factor that affects the performance of children. When there are so many children in class, the educator finds it difficult to reach out to all of them. Classrooms are effective with few children for there to be interaction among children and even with the teacher.

Marzano et al (2003) Effective teaching cannot take place in a poorly managed classroom if the students are uncontrollable and ill-mannered. Research tells us that the teacher is the most important factor that affects the students’ performance.

Emotional and social challenges: Some children are faced with social and emotional problems .Teachers need to get close to each student and make sure they are well taken care. Teachers are also meant to give the students that are slow learners more time in their work. Since not all children learn the same way. Educators can help to make students succeed if they are faced with the problems of health and safety, stress and discomfort. Jensen (2010).

Teachers Interaction with Students: Improving student relationships with teachers has important, positive and long lasting implications for students and academic social development. Instances when students and teachers interact often boost the performance of the student for the reason that the student would be able to talk about areas they find difficult in their studies. The teacher and student is also able to achieve higher level of achievement with more interaction. Kaufman (2012).

Government should look into schools with bad environment and ensure that classrooms are well equipped with facilities to boost the academic performance of the students. To ensure that there are well equipped computers in the classrooms for the children to have effective learning. They should also make sure that the teachers have got enough materials for teaching. Akiri and Uborugbo (2009).Providing books for the children and also encouraging the children to read often even with the assistance of their parents at home. Nevertheless Government should help those from poor homes by having a school clinic whereby children are provided with vitamins daily which boosts their immune system. However Howard (2012) states the importance of giving vitamins to children in school.