School Infrastructure and Talent Development of High Schools Students in USA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53819/81018102t50124Abstract
The development of children's talents can be significant in their lifetime. The early nurturing of talents enables a child to develop essential skills that can be useful to be embraced in the future. Against this background, the study sought to examine the effect of school infrastructure on the development of student's talents in the USA. The study was literature based. The study discovered that good school infrastructure positively influences students' talents. Good infrastructure improves the students' studies and ensures they are safe, healthy, and comfortable in school. The school infrastructure, such as fields, music rooms, and theater rooms, helps the students participate in different activities, which helps develop the learner physically, socially, mentally and emotionally. The location and availability of adequate playing fields and necessary equipment are necessary for talent development. Students who engage in extra-curricular activities manage to develop many essential traits that are key to their future life. The study concluded that school infrastructure contributes positively to developing students' talents in schools in the USA. Teachers' role in developing extra-curricular talents among students in secondary schools in the USA is significant. The parental role is essential in students' development in extra-curricular activities since the parental motivation for extra-curricular activities leads to increased student participation. The study recommended that education stakeholders develop school infrastructure to tap and nurture students' talents. The government and other stakeholders should increase school funding and allocate an adequate amount to every extra-curricular activity in the learning institutions. The teachers, guardians and education officers should come together and put the relevant infrastructure in place to motivate students to participate in extra-curricular activities. The government should train extra-curricular teachers to ensure learners get the best training and career guidance. Guardians should be optimistic about extra-curricular activities in learning institutions and motivate their kids to engage in them because some can make a career out of them.
Keywords: School infrastructure, talent development, students, USA
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