How to guide first-year students to adapt to residential life

1. Understand students’ psychology, care for and protect students

Entering a new environment alone is a big challenge for every boarding child. After entering boarding school, first-year students begin to deal with the surrounding environment independently and get rid of their dependence on their parents. When in school, the head teacher should give more gentle guidance to the new students and describe a more interesting life in the future. 1. Pay attention to students’ psychology and correctly treat students’ homesickness. Most first-grade children are only 5 or 6 years old. They will definitely have a lot of discomfort when they leave their parents for the first time. At the same time, entering a new environment will make them feel more uneasy. When students are homesick, the class teacher should talk to them in a sympathetic tone and experience, take the students for a walk outdoors to distract them, and must not show boredom, rejection, or even scold the students for crying. 2. Be patient with students’ crying emotions and give each student time to wait. Each student's psychological endurance is different. Some students cry severely when they first enter the school, but they adapt after a period of time; some students find it new and fun when they first enter the school, but they will also cry once the attraction period is over; Some children are emotionally unstable.

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The crying phenomenon goes up and down, and lasts for a long time, several months or even an entire year. There will be a cycle of crying during the semester. This requires the head teacher to be prepared for a long-term battle to attack each child's psychology and understand the different personality characteristics and psychological characteristics of each child.

3. Sincerely care for every student and gain the closeness and trust of children. Be close to his teacher and believe in his way. First-grade primary school students are very dependent on adults. Adults’ encouraging words and correct guidance have a guiding effect on children. The psychological development of primary school students who have just entered first grade is not yet complete, and their self-care ability is not strong, so they need more care and love from teachers. When a child is wronged in class, you should listen to him patiently and comfort him in time. When it is cold, remind students to wear more clothes. When the child reaches out to you with his loose shoelaces, help him tie them. Okay? These seemingly inconspicuous little things can make children feel the warmth of family and feel that the teacher is as kind as their mother. This will not only shorten the distance between teachers and students, but also stabilize their emotions, allowing them to study with more peace of mind and gradually adapt to life in school.

2. Adjust your work and rest time and become familiar with campus life

The most obvious change in the transition from kindergarten to elementary school is that the learning tasks have become heavier and the learning pace has accelerated. Many freshmen are more resistant to boarding life because they cannot adapt to the new environment and rhythm. The head teacher must first find a way to help students adapt to primary school campus life.

1. At the beginning of the school year, the teaching tasks and progress are not very heavy. Without affecting the overall work of the school, the class teacher can flexibly and appropriately adjust the students' work and rest time, and make the curriculum at the entrance stage more relaxed. Help students adapt to the learning and life rhythm of primary school as soon as possible. Try not to make adjustments to dining, bedtime and other times, but some courses can be arranged flexibly. For example, for comprehensive classes such as physical education, music, and art that students are interested in, the time can be slightly extended; after breakfast or getting up during the lunch break, you can go for a walk in the playground, courtyard, etc. outdoors to relax.

2. Arrange more outdoor activities to help students become familiar with the campus environment as soon as possible and enjoy outdoor activities. First-year students have weak adaptability and are prone to feeling uneasy in new environments. The class teacher can arrange more outdoor activities at the beginning of the semester, such as walking after meals, leading students to visit the campus when the weather is good, and understanding the various functional rooms of the teaching building. Students are full of curiosity and love for the outdoors. As long as students are allowed to spend more time outdoors, their attention will be attracted to nature and their homesickness can be dispersed.

3. Carry out various activities to help integrate into the group

New students have just entered school and do not know much about the school’s learning rhythm and rules and regulations. They often like school because it is fun. Attracted by the external appearance of the school. The activities carried out are rich and colorful, and students can integrate into the group more quickly.

1. Classroom teaching is designed to be more interesting, so that students can feel the joy of learning and like to learn. A large number of games or operational activities can be designed in classroom teaching to encourage students to actively participate. Activities that use both hands-on and brain skills are more popular among students. At the same time, the learning knowledge in first grade is closely related to life. For example, in mathematics, most of the knowledge comes from life. Learning prototypes can be found in life, and life scenes can be used for new teaching or review, which also enables students to use Use past knowledge and experience to solve problems and improve students' interest in learning. 2. Enrich extracurricular life and carry out various activities. In addition to study time, students spend more time in school for entertainment and life. Therefore, class teachers should organize a large number of cultural and sports activities at the beginning of the school year to attract students to actively participate and improve students' happiness in school life. The following are the activities that my class has carried out, and the results are quite good.

(1) Evening story time. Use evening self-study time to carry out evening storytelling activities. Students told stories for everyone one by one, which not only exercised their oral expression skills, but also promoted communication between students.

(2) Group birthday party. Pay attention to every child's birthday at school, because it is not only the happiest day for the birthday boy, but also a happy moment for all children. Use some spare time to hold a simple birthday party for the birthday boy, sing birthday songs and send birthday wishes. It will definitely become a happy memory for the children.

(3) Casual movie watching. Use after-school time, such as after dinner, before evening self-study, etc., to organize students to watch animated movies. This must be the happiest and most relaxing activity for students.

(4) Have fun competitions. For example, self-care ability competition, class Guinness, etc., children will be happy to participate in interesting activities and experience the fun of group activities.

3. Carry out group cooperation to enhance cohesion among students. Although the first-year students are small, they can already form groups within the class and carry out study or other activities as a group. When all members of the group have a common goal, every student will go all out to work hard for the goal. In the process, students will experience positive emotions such as a sense of honor, enterprising spirit, and responsibility. At the same time, good communication will turn into friendship, and rely on the power of friendship to quickly integrate each other into the group.

4. Home-school cooperation is the main one, supplemented by multi-party cooperation

To guide new students to adapt to campus life as soon as possible, in addition to carefully caring for each student, the class teacher must also unite various forces to work together for Freshmen are working hard to get on the fast track of elementary school.

1. Strengthen communication between home and school and gain support from parents. Children are young and are initially resistant to living in school. Only by standing on the same side as their parents can we persuade students to adapt to living in school. Every parent sends their children to boarding school because they need a better education, but they are very reluctant to give up.

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The head teacher should be able to relate to the parents’ feelings and provide more feedback to the parents about their children’s study and life at school. situation, giving parents peace of mind and peace of mind. When communicating with parents, various forms can be used, such as interviews, telephone communications, WeChat communications, etc. At the same time, we should also learn more about students' performance at home, praise and affirm students' progress in a timely manner, enhance students' self-confidence and sense of achievement, and feel the changes that living on campus has brought to them. 2. Combine the efforts of various departments in the school to provide students with more care. For freshmen, any person or thing in the school may knock on their closed heart door, opening their heart to accept the new environment. Therefore, the class teacher must be good at combining various forces, especially the life department, canteen and deputy class teacher, to make students like the school's life teacher, like the school's food, and like every subject teacher in the school who cares about them. At the same time, the senior group and the first-grade group can also carry out "one-on-one" assistance activities. The senior class will be responsible for taking care of the first-year students by themselves in terms of study and life, so that the new students have an older brother or sister at school who can talk to and talk to. rely on. When new students know that they are in an environment full of care and security, they will naturally let down their guard, truly integrate into collective life, and start a positive learning state.

In the early days of the boarding school term, it is the top priority of the class teacher to guide the first-year students to quickly adapt to life on campus. Based on a careful understanding of the psychology of first-year freshmen, the head teacher should use wisdom and skills to open their hearts and help each child integrate into the new group as soon as possible and adapt to campus life.