Role of Co-Curricular in Student’s Development

From the school life to the graduation years, extra-curricular plays a very significant role for every student. For the personal and the overall development, the social life of students is very significant. In the learning days of a student, there is large amount of pressure that enables them to perform great in their exams and achieve good grades or marks.

It is normal if the students are performing well and the same is expected from them by the others. The problem in school or college days arises only, if there is no life outside their classrooms. There are only books to spend time with. With no or less  social life in a classroom eductaion, books are something that revolves around them and there is nothing with which they can develop and groom their personality.

There are many guardians, parents and students that do not understand the significance of co-curricular activities in the learning days. In most of the schools, teachers have to convince the parents to let their students participate in such activities that are out of the classroom education, as the parents feel that these types of activities will distract the student from their regular studies and that will make them late to their home. Also, some of the students believe that they does not have any requirement of these activities in their life and they only need to have full concentration on their books.

But there is a great need to understand that co-curricular or extra-curricular activities plays similar importance as the academics. Both of these aspects complement each other in a good way and helps in the overall development of a student. It also helps to transform an individual to socially active from a fully concentrated studious child. In todays’ time, personal grooming is the most essential part to survive in the huge competitive world where education should be more than classroom walls. A student can choose from so many activities in the name of co-curricular that includes rugby, athletics, football, chess or music.

Benefits of extra-curricular activities

1. Improvement in academic performance – Various studies have been conducted which shows that the students who participate in the extra activities other than classroom learning helps in the improvement of grades or marks. This improvement is assigned to certain skills like good time management that helps in accommodating different class activities and hobbies, improved organizational skills along with boosting self-esteem. There are several skills that students learn in clubs that includes debate competitions participation that can also be applied in a classroom. With this, student also learns the method to express themselves better in front of the known or unknown public.

2. Improvement in management skills – It is important for the student to learn the method of maintaining balance between their academic life and social life or hobbies. Every student should know the method of incorporating or adding these extra activities of their life in to their academic routine or school life and separate different time for each one of them. They should also know to make planning of their daily routine by managing both study time and extra activities with proper balance. They should also know to make the best us of their free or extra time. Such students can develop themselves in the most effective and efficient way.

3. Learning new and useful skills – There are multiple activities in the school including extra-curricular and academic through which students can learn various new skills that are helpful at every platform. These skills include critical thinking, teamwork and social skills. Also, it has been found that whosoever participates in such activities are more likely to develop skills like leadership skills.

4. Build a sense of commitment – In whatever students shows their involvement, the sense of commitment is must. This is due to their participation in different club or sports activity; students can make the commitment or fit by extending all the areas and reasons of living.

5. Build a sense of responsibility - A student who is considered as the leader of their group has to build the sense of  social responsibility and accountability  in them by increasing the efficiency in their tasks.

6. Making new friends – Every student should pursue the extra-curricular that is important for the encouragement of the students as they meet more new people and create the formation of new friendship. This is very significant as students can make the interaction with different or similar interest’s people and learn different thoughts and ideas. Also, they can develop a different point of view and starting seeing life in general.

7. Introduction to new activities – The engagement of students in extra-curricular are directly exposed to the large number of opportunities that includes various activities like painting, scouts, sports, drama and singing. Most of the students gain the perfection when some of their interested activities are hobby and turn them into the career in their later lives.

8. More opportunities – The engagement of extra-curricular activities of secondary school children can boost and enhance the possibilities of getting admission into the universities. Most of the universities before taking the admission, they observe the confidence and the overall development of a students that can only be enhanced from the co-curricular activities.

Some of the students have the expertise in the sports like football and athletics and they also got scholarships due to the part of sport quota. The aim of this education is the development of each and every student in all aspects. These skills include social, intellectual, spiritual, physical and moral capabilities. It is very important to make the balance between all these skills so that the students could be benefitted from this.

Conclusion

There are different benefits of different co-curricular activities. Various studies have been made which says that some kind of artistic activities helps in the development of creative expressions and problem-solving skills among students. But the musical activities can focus on the development of patience and the sports activities helps in the improvement of the coordination. But on the general basis, it has been found that these co-curricular activities carry the higher rate of academic success. There are millions of cases all around the world which shows that the motivation of the student can be increased from the co-curricular activities.