TEACHER ROOM: The importance of developing attention for good learning.

Attention is a person's perception of the objects and phenomena that are most important to him.

How attention is formed in children

Source

To develop attention skills in the learning process, it is important to observe several requirements:

• Enough learning pace and absence of long pauses;
• Dependence on active mental activity (use of tasks to summarize and compare, look for examples and take stock);
• The absence of external stimuli, attracting involuntary attention and distracting from the cognitive process (strong comments, sudden movements);
• Clarity and brevity of explanations before the child begins to do any work.

It is strictly forbidden to comment on the actions of the child when he is doing some activity, this distracts the child from the task and makes him concentrate on his words and again at work, which causes fatigue and interest in the lesson.

Attention training is facilitated by various games and observation exercises. The search for correspondences, errors, changes attracts and supports the child's attention, teaches him to concentrate without additional attention.

How to improve attention.

Source

Include special exercises in the educational process, to improve attention:

• special exercises for the development of the basic properties of care (stability, distribution, concentration);
• exercises that form attention as personal property.

The lack of attention is the result of the orientation of the children to the general, and not to the details. By understanding the general meaning of the story, the essence of a statement or a mathematical problem, children do not go into details, they do not take into account important elements.

The purpose of specialized exercises is to teach a child to perceive details in a general context.

The development of the attention of the youngest schoolchildren, with an adequate organization, becomes attention, an integral characteristic of a successful person. This is important to explain to children, to convince them of how much observation is needed, the ability to look for deficiencies, compare and see the changes. Tell the children that attentive people always have a goal and easily achieve it.

By forming a daily routine with your child, he will teach you to pay attention to important events in a complex and individual way. By gradually eliminating an action plan, you will teach the student to concentrate on the details.

You can improve the child's attention by accustoming him to discipline, responsibility and accuracy. Attentive children: gathered children who take care of things, can take care of their loved ones and themselves.

Games to train attention.

Constant attention and memory training is the key to training the skills necessary for effective and successful learning in a student. The inclusion of the following games in primary education has a positive effect on children's performance and ability to concentrate.

• "I remember everything"
  
  Source

The game is perfect for training as a couple or in a small group. The main task of the players is to memorize words in a strict sequence, and the fulfillment of the conditions is monitored by the teacher, registering a chain of words. Use words with the same theme: fruits, vegetables, cities, countries.

• Color exercise game.
  
  Source

An interesting exercise that can become a competition with a winner. The essence of the task is to name precisely the colors with which the words are written. The game develops a concentration of attention, because the child focuses on the color of the font and not on the word that denotes color.

• Find the differences
  
  Source

The child's task is to find all the differences between two similar images.
Improving stability and the amount of attention: the ability to concentrate on several objects at once.

Reference:

12