Junior high and Archer have become something of a frustration to me. He is doing fine with his peers, no bullying issues thank goodness. Honestly that is what I was most worried about. He scores well on his tests. His teachers all talk about what a smart, kind, and respectful person he is. He does his homework. Where might the frustration be you might ask? All of that sounds great does it not? He truly is a great young man. However the kid cannot seem to turn his homework in on a consistent basis! From talking to friends I am finding that this is a very common issue. He had a hard time in a couple classes first term. Second term did great, mostly A's with a couple B's. This last term, back to his bad habits from the first term. It seems like a huge waste of time to me to expend the time and effort of doing the work and then not reaping the rewards of it. There is a large learning curve involved. In elementary school teachers will remind you to turn work in, in junior high not so much. In elementary teachers only have 20-30 kids in their classrooms, not over 100 different kids throughout the day. So I understand why it is put on the kids to keep track of these things. It can be hard for a child to learn to do. The solution we came up with is that every Sunday evening, before the school week starts, Archer and I will sit down and review the upcoming week. We will pull up Infinite Campus and make sure he has no missing assignments, we will review the scores he has gotten up to that point, and we will see what is due that week. The hope is that he will get into the habit of doing it himself, but in the meantime part of my job as his mom is to help him learn to do it. At the end of the day if he gets a C in a class that he struggled with and worked his butt off at, then I will be okay with it. If he gets a C in that same class because he did not turn in work he had done, not so okay with that. So the learning curve continues, for both of us. Archer's learning curve is keeping track of assignments. My learning curve is to help my child with this new portion of his life. Just like we had to teach him to balance to ride a bike properly, we need to teach him how to do this to succeed at school. At the end of the day, no matter how frustrating it may be I am so very proud of Archer and all my kids. They are fantastic and I am blessed to be their mom.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Learning Curve
Junior high and Archer have become something of a frustration to me. He is doing fine with his peers, no bullying issues thank goodness. Honestly that is what I was most worried about. He scores well on his tests. His teachers all talk about what a smart, kind, and respectful person he is. He does his homework. Where might the frustration be you might ask? All of that sounds great does it not? He truly is a great young man. However the kid cannot seem to turn his homework in on a consistent basis! From talking to friends I am finding that this is a very common issue. He had a hard time in a couple classes first term. Second term did great, mostly A's with a couple B's. This last term, back to his bad habits from the first term. It seems like a huge waste of time to me to expend the time and effort of doing the work and then not reaping the rewards of it. There is a large learning curve involved. In elementary school teachers will remind you to turn work in, in junior high not so much. In elementary teachers only have 20-30 kids in their classrooms, not over 100 different kids throughout the day. So I understand why it is put on the kids to keep track of these things. It can be hard for a child to learn to do. The solution we came up with is that every Sunday evening, before the school week starts, Archer and I will sit down and review the upcoming week. We will pull up Infinite Campus and make sure he has no missing assignments, we will review the scores he has gotten up to that point, and we will see what is due that week. The hope is that he will get into the habit of doing it himself, but in the meantime part of my job as his mom is to help him learn to do it. At the end of the day if he gets a C in a class that he struggled with and worked his butt off at, then I will be okay with it. If he gets a C in that same class because he did not turn in work he had done, not so okay with that. So the learning curve continues, for both of us. Archer's learning curve is keeping track of assignments. My learning curve is to help my child with this new portion of his life. Just like we had to teach him to balance to ride a bike properly, we need to teach him how to do this to succeed at school. At the end of the day, no matter how frustrating it may be I am so very proud of Archer and all my kids. They are fantastic and I am blessed to be their mom.
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