Description: Private Tutor Kelsey shares her advice on how to remain focused during stressful times and be able to achieve your academic goals.
Long-term Goals
This is often one of the hardest things to do when it comes to learning, and that is staying focused.
This is especially true when the goals we want to achieve are so far in the future.
It may be that a child is only at the beginning of secondary school, yet they already know they want to be a vet in the future.
Becoming a vet will require the child to complete the rest of secondary school, then go onto A-Levels or college, then many years of university and training.
In this instance, the child may lose interest or focus when the end goals seem so far away, and therefore so out of reach.
This is where it becomes so important as a tutor, to guide students, and to help facilitate the student in reaching their end learning goals.
Setting Quarterly Goals
As a tutor, I believe it is best to split the long-term goals, into smaller, and therefore shorter goals.
This is something that helps me to stay focused, and something I believe helps students too.
If I were working with this student, who wished to become a vet in the future, I would work incrementally with the student.
This means focusing on one exam at a time, one school or educational year at a time, and therefore one goal at a time.
If the student is only focusing on something short, then this is more motivational and easier to visualize.
Before the student knows it, they have passed years of education and have reached the ultimate end goal.
One Step at a Time
When I was studying myself, I felt completely de-motivated when I thought about how many years it would be before I finished.
However, I began by focusing solely on completing college first.
I told myself that if I only focused on college and then I could always decide my next move afterwards.
Before I knew it, I had completed A levels, a Bachelors degree, and a Master’s degree.
This took me a lot of years, but the time flew by focusing on one step at a time.
Whilst I will often ask students about what they want to achieve long term, I will only have them focus on shorter goals, one at a time.
The student does not know that I am keeping their long-term goals in mind until we reach the end.
I remind them of how far they have come, and how they have reached their initial goals.
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