PARENTS AND STUDENTS PARTNERSHIP IN THEIR ACADEMIC SUCCESS
SHERYL D. URBANO
Students should have the opportunity to take charge of their academic success by formulating and following through on their own plan to improve. By assuming responsibility for their mistakes, and learn the true value of personal accountability. When students have a low grade in her class, give them a blank plan with a list of approaches that will lead to improvement.
The goals are realistic— no more missing or incomplete assignments, a target grade and at least partial proficiency in the coursework, for example. Next they identify specific steps they will take to meet the goal. By allowing students to take the lead, puts them in charge of their own academic success. The student signs their own plan, with the support of their parents and become proactive approach to their classwork.
To ensure that students are held accountable at home and school, and to boost the likelihood that they will follow through on efforts to reach their goals. This way, students can work from an unwavering foundation of positive reinforcement, which encourages them to reach the higher level of proficiency and also teaches them the value of personal responsibility.
Teachers should work in tandem with parents to help students grow into self-conscious and constructive adults. Meeting that goal is not always easy, but once parents see you as an advocate in their child’s development, you’ll be on the way to making sure the lessons from school are being enforced at home, and vice versa. Students would charge of their own success and encouraging experience with students who would rather slack off then be held accountable for their studies.
Students seem to respond productively when teachers give them the opportunity to take charge of their academic success. By holding students accountable for their work and responsible for maintaining a personal level of excellence, teachers can provide their classes with the necessary tools they need to better themselves. Accountability breeds responsibility, and students who develop the tools to target and improve their academic shortcomings will, in turn, develop the skills they need to go far in life.
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The author is Teacher III at Andres M. Luciano High School, Division of Pampanga