What is concentration
Concentration is the mental state of a person who performs an activity.
The activity can be static or dynamic; it can be interesting or boring; it can be human or object-oriented.
Many people will understand concentration as an attitude of the person, and some people will understand it as a separate ability. All of these understandings are actually one-sided.
Concentration is a dynamic function of cognitive activities, including auditory perception, visual perception, memory, thinking, imagination, execution, feedback and other activities.
The driving force behind the smooth development of cognitive activities is concentration.
Ways to improve concentration
1
Do what interests you
Interest is the best teacher, and children will show lasting concentration for things that interest them.
Find something that your child is interested in and encourage him to have fun with it.
If it's a learning aspect, try to make the learning process more interesting.
2
Strengthen the ability to interact with people in the connection and strengthen interactive training
Whether in life or in learning, give children more positive responses,
Accompany children with high quality, such as bringing children into contact with people and nature, animals, and giving children full attention and praise.
3
Express and control emotions rationally
In the absence of negative emotional interference, people can focus more on doing a thing.
Adults need to reasonably control their emotions, do not let their emotions interfere with children, but also guide children to express emotions, and accept all the children's emotions, so that children's emotions remain in a benign state, so that children can be more focused on learning, sports, and games.
Develop children's ability to think for themselves. Independent thinking can improve the level of self-awareness, and the improvement of the level of consciousness can effectively improve concentration.
Let the child do what he can do, experience a sense of accomplishment in life and learning, and gradually build self-confidence.
4
Strengthen the training of one's own sensory integration ability
Take your children to multi-faceted sports, such as playing ball, dancing, etc.;
Strengthen auditory and perceptual ability training, including auditory concentration, auditory working memory, fine control, auditory processing speed, etc.;
Strengthen visual perception ability training: including visual concentration, visual working memory, fine control, visual processing speed, etc., to improve the phenomenon of easy wandering;
In general, it is necessary to strengthen the child's sensory integration training.
What is sensory integration
Sensory integration training refers to the neuropsychological process in which the brain selects, interprets, connects, and unifies the sensory information entered by individuals from different sensory pathways such as sight, hearing, touch, smell, vestibularity, and ontology.
Sensory integration is the basis for individuals to carry out daily life study and work.
The relationship between sensory integration and concentration
Learning activities such as listening to lectures and doing homework are precise coordination of advanced sensory systems such as audiovisual movement and thinking, and this part of the content is usually the focus of attention training.
Sensory system training is more basic than attention training, and children who usually undergo sensory system training generally need to be trained to improve the ability to accurately coordinate and intentionally pay attention to projection and stability.
Simply put, sensory system training focuses on balance ability and coordination ability of large muscle groups, and attention training focuses on improving the autonomy and rhythmic ability of the nervous system, and solves the problems of class wandering, hyperactivity, impulsivity, procrastination, and precise movement.
The two are inseparable in the process of children's growth.
This requires us to realize one point: to improve children's concentration, we need to give children professional and effective sensory training to achieve the goal of improving children's learning ability and comprehensive ability.