A ‘school adaptation check-list’

Abstract

In my experience as a teacher, I have become very much aware of students' problems arising out of difficulties in adapting themselves to various aspects of school life, such as change of institution, friends, teachers, academic level and expectations. Very often, difficulty to cope with life at school creates many emotional problems and scholastic performance suffers. The checklist I have generated will, hopefully, help persons concerned in pastoral or administrative activities in a school to identify students with adaptational problems, and also to gauge specific areas which many students might be finding difficult to cope with in a particular school. Knowing the attitudes of each individual and those characteristic of the group, the school can mobilize its counselling services to help make the adjustments necessary.