Students with low Self-esteem affect their personal and professional growth in all terms of life. There are different reasons that why students manifest low self esteem and it is visible through desperate behavioral traits of children, poor academic result by students and lack of confidence. Students with low self-reliability hinder their progress and development, their work and abilities themselves.
Self-esteem is the vital factor to gain experience and knowledge. Moreover, low self-esteem students have low confidence and less desire to achieve their personal goals and raise their personal potential. Low self-esteem students form negative self-image and learning disabilities. Some low self-esteem students acquire pervasive feelings and degrade themselves in comparison with other friends.
Factors Affecting Low Self-Esteem
- Negligence of Parents: Negligence of parents and teachers in the growth of child affect his/her self-esteem. If the child is not brought up in a challenged or structured environment, he feels oppressed by other students. in traditional setting atmosphere, teachers are unable to provide individualized attention to students. This results in lack of confidence and self-limiting abilities.
- Criticism by fellow mates: If the child is continuously getting criticism by their peers, taunted and scolded by peers affect the self-respect of child and he/she feels degraded.
- Inadequate to achieve high scores: When child remains inadequate to get high scores and looses academic opportunities. His/her self-esteem level deteriorates that affect his/her growth cycle.
How to cope up with low self esteem?
There are different influencing factors that affect the self-image of a person. They include environment, parents, teachers and society. The self-limiting abilities can be inculcated in students from childhood through:
- Knowledge:
The awareness and acquiring knowledge about all issues is very important factor to learn about inadequacies and accomplishments by a person. Before expecting academic excellence and learning inadequacies, they should be guided to build confidence and self-esteem in them. They should be provided with positive learning experiences by teachers, parents and skilled mentors. Structured, supportive and positive environment makes students with low self-esteem more comfortable and educating them about their weaknesses, strengths, feelings and learning styles enhances self-esteem in them.
- Evaluation
Now, our personal knowledge and self-acquiring assessments should be built up. The effective evaluating strategies include personal interviews, observations and in-depth questioning and then providing individualized competency based knowledge to them.
- Implementation
After proper assessment and evaluation, they should be educated to set realistic goals and suggest different measures to achieve them.
- Encouragement
Then finally, students with low self-esteem should be motivated and encouraged to fulfill his/her dreams and achieve their goals. They must admit themselves to learn more, encouraged to speak about themselves and to take risk or handling difficult situations.
This will help students with low self-esteem to grow and prosper.
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