The Role of Attention in the Learning and Studying Process of Primary School Students

An essential condition for the successful implementation of the educational process is considering both age and individual characteristics of attention. The correct organization of the educational process plays a vital role in attracting and maintaining students’ attention in the classroom and educating their attentiveness as a personality trait. This paper is aimed to examine the role and peculiarities of primary school students’ attention.

The attention of younger students is characterized by low stability. When working with this age group of students, teachers need to consider the prevalence of the involuntary type of attention and visual-figurative perception of surroundings (Miller & Unsworth, 2021). This fact should become decisive in the selection of educational material. The teacher must act gradually in presenting the material to look for such an angle of consideration of tasks that can interest the little learner.

Another property of attention is its volume, which is determined by the amount of information that can simultaneously be stored in the sphere of consciousness of a person. It should be noted that the amount of attention established experimentally is often identified with the number of short-term memory phenomena (Sari at al.., 2020). When working with children of primary school age, it is necessary to ensure a gradual increase in attention volume according to the incremental complication of educational and performing tasks.

Attention, meaning the ability of a person to focus on the activity he is performing and disconnect from all side stimuli, is one of the structural components of the cognition process and is one of the necessary conditions for the implementation of any type of activity. Thus, a purposeful pedagogical influence on the development of each component of students’ attention will contribute to the intensive formation of the cognitive process.

References

Miller, A. L., & Unsworth, N. (2021). Attending to encode: The role of consistency and intensity of attention in learning ability. Journal of Memory and Language, 121, 104276.

Sari, Y., Supena, A., Sari, R. P., & Iasha, V. (2020). The Role of Executive Function in Facing Attention Interference in Elementary School Students: Descriptive Qualitative. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Learning Innovation and Quality Education (pp. 1-6).

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