A week to go till school starts, and we're still trying to work out how to handle the contradictory requirements of motivation, support, and hands-off. My notes thus far (comments welcome):
High school is a time for taking responsibility, and not being treated like a young child.
School is her job
She earns color guard and karate through school performance
If there is no tracking, interim/final grades can be an unpleasant surprise.
It is difficult to tell on a weekly basis how performance is going, because school does not supply this information, and there might be a reluctance to give bad news, or it might be believed that the news isn't so bad, therefore not worth mentioning.
Question: how to handle bad news (failed test/missed assignment, etc)
Question: how to handle when news wasn't given that turned out to be worse than thought
Review has been shown to work. It doesn't have to take a lot of time per subject.
Question: how to do this? Daily, weekly? Flash cards, list of questions, book itself? Inhouse or with 'smart people'?
2 comments:
How about asking her what the punishment should be for a missed assignment and what the action (more study time?) should be to correct a failed test?
I will, but focusing more on 'how to fix this' rather than punishment. We're willing to punish, but I think she's getting a little old for that. As she remarked the other day, she's in high school now.
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