Every student will unanimously say – “Yes, off course!” to this question. Extra-curricular, as the name suggests means – things we do apart from our regular course of study. These activities help students a lot. In today’s era, we can see the importance of co-curricular activities in schools. When a child participates and performs well in activities like sports, art & dance, debates etc., their morale increases drastically. They get equipped to face every difficult situation in life very confidently. But few students and their parents might think other way round. They have a notion that extra-curricular activities like the ones mentioned above only distracts the student and nothing else. In reality, it is not like that. According to some survey in India, it was found that children need to participate in co-curricular activities. But now such students and parent who do not believe in this will ask – Why?
There are plenty of reasons. But in this article, we will give you some core benefits only which you will get by participating in extra-curricular activities. They are:
- Increases Confidence & Self Esteem
Extra-curricular activities like sports, drama, music etc. boosts your confidence. The more you achieve success in such extra activities, the more you will be taking up the risks. You should always work on your dreams weather related to non-academics also because you never know that your practice, confidence and self-esteem may give you many medals in your areas of interest. High level of self-esteem is always essential for positive mental health and well-being.
- Improve Academic Performance
In extra-curricular activities, a lot of skills like critical thinking, analytical thinking, problem solving and creativity are required and developed. These skills help in improving your academic performance as well. It also gives you motivation to improve academically and achieve better scores.
- Learn Time Management Skills
Extra-curricular activities allow you to learn one of the most important life skills. Any student who participates in extra activities learns time management skill as they have to firstly manage time between their extra-curricular activities and studies. On the top of that there are many activities such as drama and play, for instance, that teaches you to deliver your dialog in the best possible time along with other characters to create a complete story line of a 1- or 2-hour show. Time management plays important role in our daily life. For time management skills, students need a lot of practice and it requires great deed of perseverance.
- Gain Knowledge of Outside World
Getting knowledge of outside world can usually be taken as gaining general knowledge. Those students who read a lot of books or novels and participate in quizzes or competitions are benefitted the most on this perspective. They accumulate all the knowledge in the process which may be no one in their batch possess. It helps student to be on the top of everything among their other candidates.
- Out of the Box Thinking
While performing in extra activities, students have to think out of the box many-a-times. Co-curricular activities help students build this new and creativity-based skill. In some activities like debate competition, you need logical reasoning too which requires you to come out of your shell and think differently. This makes you look different from others.
- Building Social Network
In extra-curricular activities like sports where you get chance to participate in inter school competition, you get opportunity to meet many new people. It is a good prospect for students to interact with other students and develop their social skills. Students make more friends and they become more confident communicating in groups.
With all the positives outcome mentioned above from participating in extra-curricular activities, we highly suggest you to take part in them. But never forget to balance and plan it well between your classes, studies, sports, music and in fact everything. If you are facing any issue in managing your time or facing some other school life issue, you are always welcome to reach out to our experts on GrabGuidance anytime for a dedicated career guidance program for college students.
