subject: Pros And Cons Of Using School Stickers As A Way To Recognise Outstanding Students In School [print this page] Healthy competition always brings out the best in the class. The overall objective of schooling is not just teaching students. Schooling also encourages competition among students and thus learning experience is enhanced by a feeling of contest among the young learners. Encouragement can come in many different ways including verbal approval, school certificates etc. Use of school stickers is also a trending way to encourage and buck-up the deserving students. In this way, even the students who lag behind try their best to achieve a good image in the class.
But sometimes, the atmosphere of contest and competition just breaks down and the environment of class just becomes stagnant and boring. This can have many reasons. The main reason for this is can be the lack of encouragement for individual activities. Maybe, just marking an A and writing appreciating comments on a report once a week, does not bring enough satisfaction for an outstanding student who is trying his best to be the best in studies as well as the cleanest, most punctual, most attentive, most responsive and most well behaved student of the class.
New ways of support and encouragement should be searched and implemented. For instance, if a student is the most attentive student of the class, does not he deserve to be awarded for the fact? Surely he does and he should be. But how should he be properly appreciated for his outstanding achievement? Just a verbal appreciation is enough? The answer is no. There should be a way to value his accomplishment in way which is memorable for him as well. School stickers or school certificates are the best way to do so. School stickers can be awarded for certain achievements gained by students. This approach can also urge other students in a non-verbal way that they will be appreciated and valued the same way if the try to achieve what their classmates have.
But what are the pros and cons of using stickers for schools and school certificates to buck-up the deserving students. Lets shed some light upon the different facts around school stickers.
Pros:
Appreciation of students on different achievements which are often ignored and fail to be a part of their overall performance. As said before, appreciation always brings out the best and support a student to perform even better than his last performance.
Send an indirect or non-verbal message to the students who are not performing well enough in the class. This reduces the hassle caused on such children in using tactics like threatening and punishing.
Use of school stickers can be regarded as a souvenir for the student and it will remind him of the achievement of his previous grade, standard or class. He might want to gain that recognition again. In order to do that, the student will perform better in his class to maintain his past record.
Cons:
Over appreciation might lead to over-confidence among the outstanding students of the class. But it can easily be reduced if they are reminded that they need to keep working their best if they want to retain their award.
Problems of jealousy or envy might arise in the class. Children who are unable to get the rewards and do not even want to try might bully the children who are rewarded frequently. Jealousy is a very real problem that needs to be considered properly.
Stickers might get lost or wasted easily. The quality of school stickers should be good. They must be durable enough to last at least for an academic year.
Thus, the use of school stickers and school certificates for motivating children in order to increase and enhance their performance and control their attitude without using punishments or detentions is a very big and important factor. Awarding and appreciation on other issues rather than only academic performance brings the students who are always neglected, to the front. They get the feeling that they are properly participating in the class and thus they might strive and struggle to be at their best. If you are a teacher, and you see that your students are learning as well as excelling with motivation and a hunger to do more, what else do you need besides stickers for schools?
