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How to Motivate Students Only Interested in Sport to Improve their School Performances
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5. Help the student organise their schedule
Good time management is usually the most difficult element to achieve. Sport requirements often increase with time while school requirements intensify during a session, not to mention other requirements from daily life.
Planning can help to reduce stress and give a feeling that one manages their life well:
Offer concrete tools such as a diary or a time management application to help the student set their sport timetable (training, competition, travels, medical check-up…) and school timetable (courses, homework, deadlines, exams…), as well as their free time, like sleep and nutrition (a pressure valve when one’s schedule is busy).
Before adopting a definitive schedule, set a “test” period.
Listen to the coaches and parents and create an open and confident atmosphere for interaction and communication. Arrange regular meetings and evaluation discussions with the student in order to follow his / her progress and ability to balance the sport career and studies. In case of problems or absences, start tackling the issue immediately and try to find, together with the student, solutions for the problems. Let the student find the solutions by himself/herself, if possible. Try to act as a support, do not give ready answers, if possible
Learning Objective
The learning objective of step 5 is to remind the importance of a common planning and scheduling, together with the student, parents and sport teams. An open atmosphere and discussion help the teachers to understand the requirements set by the sport team for the students, and vice versa. Parents are on an important position when supporting the student’s progress in studies and sports and all these actors have to be aware of what is going on in the student’s life.
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