School professional practices to reduce the educational problems of the Preparatory stage students from the teachers' perspective

Abstract

At this stage, adolescents face internal psychological conflicts because of their desires, personal interests and the demands of parents, adults, social values and religious beliefs. These conflicts may affect the adolescent's school life and cause many academic problems related to their achievement and continuity in school. Despite the differences in problems that may accompany adolescence, researchers agree on the attendant changes that make this stage receptive and unstable (Sartawi, Duqmaq, & Abu Helal, 2009). In this context, Sadeq and Abu Hatab, (1999) pointed out that Stanley Hall (1904) described this stage as "a period of storms, tension, and intensity of psychological crises and suffering, frustration, anxiety and adjusted problems". Zahran, (2005) indicate that there're other problems associated with a lack of achievement, neglect, lack of motivation in school and various social activities, escape from school and other problems of adolescence in school. Schools all over the world have recently suffered from student problems that seem clearly obvious, whether academic, behavioural, social or emotional, the school administration called for urgently solving them. These problems have become a major barrier in achieving the school's ultimate goal, which is to provide school ‫لتنمية‬ ‫وا‬ ‫ية‬ ‫لرتبو‬ ‫ا‬ ‫للبحوث‬ ‫لقومي‬ ‫ا‬ ‫املركز‬ ‫ـ‬ 91 ‫ـ‬ environment meet the needs of students (Athanasoula & Lazaridou, 2008).Many researchers (e.g., Tannenbaum, 2000;Rayneri, Gerber & Wiley, 2003;David, 2017) indicated that students' problems in preparatory school can show up as poor academic performance, lack of motivation for school, loss interesting in schoolwork, and poor relationships with peers or teachers.Many studies focused on academic outcomes and concern academic problems such as low attendance, decreasing academic achievement, and dropping out of school (Benner & Graham, 2009). There might be several reasons behind these academic problems.Students' connection with the school is one of the main reasons, and studies showed that developing a good connection with the school increases academic success and positive social behaviours. However, when the academic performance and students' school connectedness are decreased, then students may demonstrate some undesirable attitudes such as low attendance to classes (Kocak, 2016). Badarna (2016) indicated that the literature showed the most common problems among school students are cheating, straying, distraction, lack of concentration, insubordination, hyperactivity, shyness, social withdrawal, aggressive behavior, psychological problems, loss of belonging to the community, rush, neglect of the study, the lack of attention, and low academic achievement.School professional practices to reduce the educational problems of the Preparatory stage students from the teachers' perspective ‫ـ‬ 92 ‫ـ‬Students are also at increased risk for dropping out of school when they from middle to high school. Students who do not have a good transition are more likely to drop out of scho...