Students face lots of various challenges during the whole educational process in primary school, high school, college or university - unknown classes, complicated exams, misunderstanding with teachers or classmates, etc. This situation becomes even harder after the holidays when students are having long breaks from learning and communicating with other students. As the holidays are over, it is time to get back to reality and continue studying hard which can be really tough and have a negative impact on the productivity and mental health of students.

Below you can familiarize yourself with the top ways to find motivation after holidays and keep engaged in the educational process during the entire term. 

Set the goals for the upcoming term
As the holidays are over, the term at your school, college or university is coming. All exams are passed and classes are in the beginning. To stay engaged in the educational process and also be productive during classes, students can set goals - starting from the easy-to-achieve to the global ones. When students set clear goals and additionally build an approximate plan on how to reach them like what classes they need to attend, what literature to read, what additional courses visit, and so on. As the first aim will be achieved, your motivation and engagement will surely go up.

Motivation via rewarding
Reward programs are always capable of keeping students motivated to study and study well. If the college or university doesn’t provide any rewards and scholarships for excellent students, then you can create such a program on your own by connecting it with your goal plan. The amount or size of each reward should correspond to the achieved goal - the harder it is, the bigger prize you should get to stay motivated and continue studying hard. Moreover, if you finish your semester successfully, then the main prize could be a new trip during the next holidays to have a maximum of rest.

Implementing games\rest during lessons
It is not recommended to dive into the educational process 100% right away after the holidays are over. This tip is primarily for teachers and professors as if they will force students to study really hard from the first day after vacation, students are likely to be inefficient and frustrated. So tutors can dilute the educational process with short breaks after each class, implement games to have a mental rest during the class, or ask students to write the best essays on how they spent their holidays. Such practices help students to concentrate on getting knowledge much better than non-stop learning.

Keeping the positive mood within classrooms
If breaks during classes help to release mental loads then keeping a positive mood helps to prevent hard mental tension at all. This task is mostly delegated to tutors as the mood of the students depends on what and how they tell them, what programs they have prepared for them, what exams they will have to pass at the end of the term, and so on. The more complicated tasks students get after holidays, the lower productivity and engagement in the process they will likely have due to the lack of confidence in their success. So to keep students in a good mood, teachers should properly choose the form they are going to flow the information.
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Implement extracurricular activities
Schools, colleges and universities are the places not only for hard studying but also for meeting new friends and spending time with collaborative activities with classmates. Such activities can be implemented after classes or during classes if they do not disturb the overall educational process. They help students to get along making studying together easier and even more pleasant and the favor “help me write my paper” will cause the willingness to help classmates, not on the contrary.

Avoid workovers
There are such types of students that dive deeply into the educational process right after the holidays. When you have a long break in studying and take lots of tasks and classes to attend, there is a huge probability to get a workover that can lead to burnout, mental problems, and even deep depression. Students should straightly evaluate their capabilities, time, and loads to distribute them correctly during the learning house and also dedicate some time for their hobbies and resting. You cannot execute and achieve all your goals for one week or month, so just take your time and keep moving gradually.

Plan the next holidays’ trips
What can be a better motivation to keep studying well than thinking of the next holidays and planning the vacation trips? Of course, thinking of the holidays all the time will not bring any benefits to your motivation and engagement in the educational process. But when the final exams, which commonly cause lots of worries and frustration among students, are coming, then it is high to release the tension and start planning the upcoming traveling.

To conclude
All in all, the motivation of students depends on themselves as well as on their college teachers and professors. To keep motivated and engaged in education, students need to understand the value and need for education for their future career and understand the dependency. The more knowledge students get, the more opportunities they will have to find a decent job in their specializations. In addition, students can build a precise plan of their self-development including the little and huge goals visualized in the dashboard and also rewards that are expected as each aim is reached.