<p>My High School Senior son finally did it, he failed a class for the very first time in his life this first marking period, he went from a 92 average in English [which has always been one of his strongest subjects] to a “50”, reason being, the school changed English Teachers midway through the marking period and the new teacher came in with a College type approach, he gives assignments on a Monday and the students have to submit it on the Friday.</p>
<pre><code>My son is slowly getting adjusted to this new method in this class. I am thinking that what the teacher did was a great idea and this should be the put into place for all subjects so the students can get accustomed to what they will be facing in college and not be blindsided by this their first semester in College. The Guidance Counselor said that if HS’s were to implement this that a LOT of the students would fail in their Senior year, I don’t neccessarily agree with this as I think that this sytem could be implemented in a gradual manner.
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<p>Anyway, my question to you guys here is, what can a HS Senior do to prepare him/herself for this issue “before” going to College so he/she can adapt to this method of learning and not get behind in their first year? Thanks.</p>
<p>I had a teacher my senior year (second semester) who taught psychology like a college course. By then most of the class had senioritis, so it was definitely a challenging class. This was an honors level class, and most of us had had AP classes, so I’d learned to study and stuff, but it was still a challenge for me, but I walked out with an A.
Some things I learned
Read the chapter when they tell you too. If they tell you they’re covering chapter 1 on Monday, have it read and outlined (or at least get down the vocab) for Monday. You get more out of the class, and you have extra notes to study from when the test rolls around.
Do the assignments in pieces; don’t wait until the last minute (ok I’m guilty of procrastinating everything even now in college)
Even if an assignment is optional and will never be graded, do it. You’ll figure out what you have questions about, and will be able to ask more questions if the teacher decides to review before a test (and a lot of professors actually will).
When studying, take notes. Writing stuff down (for most) is THE most effective way to commit information to memory or understanding</p>
<p>yeah i find that reading chapters before they’re discussed in class probably helps the most. in high school you didnt need to do this very much but college courses (im taking them now) are too hard to not be familiar with.</p>
<p>Yeah my Economics teacher teaches his class like a college class and he tells us.</p>
<p>He said that the things that he is teaching us are the things that college professors are gonna teach us. But while other people are struggling to learn it, we’ll alreadu have some basic understanding of. Need less to say I got a B and now im borderline C/B.</p>
<p>Hopefully it pays off in the long run.</p>
<p>Ha, that’s an economic term “long run”, not intended.</p>
<p>If I’m getting this right the teacher assigns work on Monday and expects it to be done by the end of the week. Shouldn’t the class be easier this way? Your kid gets time to do his homework all week instead of one night to hand it over the next day. Maybe it’s me but I’m used to doing this kind of stuff. I’ve had teachers do it both ways. Assign some work at the end of the week, and give homework to be handed in the next day. Personally it’s easier to do it when you have more time because well you have more time so I don’t see how this can ever be a bad thing.</p>
<p>In the college coruses I’ve taken, especially now I’ve learned one thing about reading textbooks and assigned readings. That is to always set aside enough time to read what you were assigned. As a plus taking notes down while you read helps a lot. I’ve never done it before but my professor said he wanted 1-page summaries each time we read, mainly just to know that we’ve read. Because I didn’t wnat to do that I asked him if I could take notes instead and hand that in and he accepted it. I found that it helped me because when ever I got stuck and I knew I needed to note something down I took the time to really understand things and put the reading in my own words. And another thing is that getting readings done early might not always be good because sometimes you might simply forget once you get the class next time. I’m used to reading things the night before or just a couple of hours before class even starts.</p>
<p>Oh btw for all those teachers that continually say that they are preparing you for the next grade, it’s a bunch of BS. I remember being in junior high and how teachers told me how hard high school was going to be a how strict they would be. Bunch of bs. Now in high school I’ve gotten the same thing about college professors. After taking 6 college courses I can tell you that’s also a bunch of bs. There might be more work but that doesn’t neccesarily make the class harder. Only you can make the class hard by not doing the work.</p>
<p>steel, that’s how my 7 year old cousins 1st grade class is. every monday they come home with a “homework folder” and it has all of their assignments in it for the week. for example, they have four books, four math worksheets, etc. my cousin comes home from school on monday and sorts things into days so that she has stuff monday tuesday wednesday and thursday nights and then hands it in friday. (my mom or my aunt help her sort it out) every once and awhile she skips a night and makes it up the next night, but she has gotten all +'s and perfect report cards so far in all of her subjects… she does what she considers to be that nights homework right when she gets home from school that day… (She gets home around four and her mom gets home around five, and she always has her homework finished by the time she’s home) which means she has her evening left to play barbies or watch movies or lately she’s been hanging out with the neighbor boys (love at first sight).</p>
<p>she has it worked out that she reads one book per night outloud to anyone who is home, and she also reads the book silently to herself as well. then whatever work sheets she has she usually ends up doing 1 or 2 per night depending on how many she decides to do on that day.</p>
<p>and I think it’s great that the teacher does it like that. It lets you do the work when you get a chance to, rather than saying okay this is due this day and htis day and that day. </p>
<p>My cousin said somebody else in her class does all of his homework the thursday night before and he never gets what’s going on in class because I guess they are covering the stuff in class throughout the week and the kid isn’t doing his homework until the week is over. </p>
<p>I’d tell your son to make sure he does a bit each night so something like that doesn’t happen to him… see, you never know what you can learn from a 7 year old :)</p>
<p>And even faster in the quarter system. 3 weeks then a midterm, one or two more weeks and then another midterm, and then a couple weeks and the final seems to be the norm.</p>