Semester 2, April 12
Posted by Cindy Leaman on 4/12/2019
Good Evening Online Parent/Guardian/student:
This is week 10 of the second semester. We will be at Pioneer in the cafeteria from 4 pm – 7 pm on April 24 for Parent-Teacher conferences. There are limited spots so we kindly ask that if your child is getting an “A” or if you have met with your child’s instructor through the drop-in centers or by appointment since winter break that you will allow a fellow parent the opportunity who might have a need to see the instructor time to sign up during the next several days. We hope that parents of students who are struggling have the opportunity first. However, if you look on Monday and spots are open, please feel free to reserve yours. Our teachers have about 150 students each and as you will see there are limited spots. Thank you for your cooperation. If you have a specific question to be addressed you should send an email to the instructor or stop by the drop-in centers. The link to the sign-up sheet is here.
Proctoring: Please remember that students may not take two tests in one sitting. If a student is taking the District Common Assessment they must arrive by 5:00 pm and be situated in the testing room by 5:15 pm. Students arriving on Thursday mornings need to arrive no later than 8:15 am.
Students should be close to the mid-point of the class. The midterms are scheduled for the week of April 15. Please visit our proctoring calendar to see what time would be best. Middle School students will have the same in-building opportunities that week as they do each week. Midterms should only be attempted if the student is ready. Most classes, AP courses excluded, do not give a grade penalty for taking the test late. However, the penalty is the fact that the student is behind and may not finish the course. Students who do not work a minimum of 5 hours a week will not be granted an extension. It is in the student’s best interest that they are prepared and take the midterm by April 18.
Two upcoming dates to be aware of:
April 24, 4-7 pm Parent-Teacher Conferences at Pioneer Cafeteria, Signup will be sent in next week’s School Messenger
In addition to the conferences there will be three seminars that parents can attend:
Middle School Acceleration in Math and World Languages
Middle School to High School Transition
Summer Term opportunities
May 1, Signup for Summer Term and Fall 2019 online classes begins
Parent Hint for the Week:
If you look at PowerSchool and see a low grade how do you know it is accurate? The grades are a snapshot in time, the date that the grade posts is most likely accurate. Especially if it shows that your child is failing. Although there is an occasion where the teacher could fall behind in grading; however, it is not a normal occurrence. Don’t accept the answer from your child that the work is turned in and the teacher just hasn’t graded it. Write to the teacher in PowerSchool to get clarification. Or even better, have your child write to their teacher listing the assignments not graded asking when they will be corrected and have them copy you on the email. Teachers do have up to 72 hours during the school week to grade most assignments and you can expect a little longer if it is a large project.
If you find your child is behind how can you help your child be successful? Students who are behind will need to work at school and at home at this point. Set up space and time that they can work where you can supervise. You don’t need to be looking over their shoulder every minute but here are a couple of tricks to ensure that they are on task. They should not have multiple windows or tabs open while working. If you see multiple tabs open to ask them to show you what they are so you can see if it is related to the class. Second, if you see screens pop up when you look over, they are likely working on two windows one for schoolwork and usually the second is social or gaming. Lastly, check the computer history when they complete their session. This will tell you all the sites they visited and what time. We tell students when they proctor or work with us that if we review the history and it has been cleared we will automatically assume that they were not working as they should and want to hide it.
Have a great week.
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