Check Your Students’ Grade Patterns

Patterns in grades give information on how to help a student do better. Look for the following information.

  • Are there any missing assignments?
  • Has the student gotten credit for all the assignments that have been given to date?
  • Is there a section of grades for homework?
  • Is there a section of grades for quizzes and tests?
  • Is there a section of grades for projects?
  • Is there a section of grades for class participation?
  • Is there a section of grades for final exams?
  • What percentage of the total grade is each piece?

Missing Assignments – Missing assignments indicate that the student is not completing the work assigned. Sometimes a student may think the assignment was given to the teacher, but it was not. Usually there are deadlines to complete missing assignments. Missing work also means that a student is not learning all of the course material. It could also mean that the student is not focused in class to get the learning and assignments. Check to see if the teacher posts class notes and assignments online.

Percentage Parts of a Grade – Each sub-category of a grade is usually marked with the percentage of the total grade. Understand what the emphasis is depending upon the percentages. Discuss how to improve performance with your student. Immediate help is available at Education Sage, Inc. Contact Beth Silver, the Education Sage, via email-bethcarolsilver@gmail.com or by phone at 310-720-0390.

Do Grades Matter? Yes, grades matter. At the high school level, grades create a student’s standing in relationship to other students . Grades are part of the admissions decisions for most colleges and universities. A student is in competition with all other students applying to the same school. The higher the grade point average, the better the chances for a student to get admitted to a school of choice.

At the elementary and middle school levels, grades indicate the percentage of the curriculum the student is learning. The grades also show how well a student is working in a class at a certain grade level. It is important that students do well to show they are meeting their potential.

What to do? Take IMMEDIATE action. Start with the classroom teacher. If a student is not doing well, the teacher will have good suggestions to help the student do better. If the concern continues, contact the school counselor or principal to get help for the student’s situation. Support the student at home with additional help.

Where to Get Outside Help? Improving grades is part of the Brain Based Coaching Program at Education Sage, Inc. The learning coaches work with individual students to polish organizational skills, study skills, class focus skills, and management skills for academic assignments. Each student learns how his/her individual brain works best. Then the student acquires skills that improve their individual learning. Students become strong, independent learners and experience success with al their academics. Contact The Education Sage, Beth Silver via email- bethcarolsilver@gmail.com or by phone at 310-720-0390.

Focus, Stick to It, Get It Done, Turn It In Skills

Focusing and persevering to get homework and study assignments done are part of Non-Cognitive Skills.

Does your student need to learn how to get focused and determined to get work done and succeed in school? The brain based learning coaches at Education Sage, Inc. have the keys to help your students unlock this potential and focus it based upon how their individual brains work. Motivation, self-regulation, grit, perseverance, academic interest, and the value attributed to learning are all non-cognitive skills.

Most students have the cognitive skills – the learning ability- to be successful in school. What is missing for most is the answer to this question – How do I get it done, be organized, study for tests, and stay focused on my work so that I do not miss assignments and do well in school ? The answer is that these non-cognitive skills are the basis for the work that is done with students to learn their subject matter at Education Sage, Inc. to help them achieve success and thrive in school.

An example of a non-cognitive skill involves perseverance. A student is given a research and writing project that is due in three weeks. At Education Sage, the student is shown how to break down the assignment into parts. The parts then are entered onto a calendar or agenda to be accomplished on certain dates. Then the Education Sage coach will keep the contact going to make sure the student is able to complete the work as planned. Students really like and enjoy this approach. After the first time, students use this non-cognitive skill of perseverance to complete other assigned work.

Another non-cognitive skill is grit. Showing a student how to keep studying information to be successful on a test is a process in increasing the grit of the student to stick with the work because success happens. Once the emphasis of how the grit works is realized, the student then uses this process for other work.

A recently published study shows that there is a possibility to connect non-cognitive skills to DNA mapping. The study link is https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-cognitive-skills-dna-based-analyses.html.

Give your student the immediate academic advantage by contacting The Education Sage, Beth Silver, at 310-720-0390 or bethcarolsilver@gmail.com. Your students will like the idea that academic success can be theirs. For more information visit the website-www.educationsage.net.

Make the First Day of School an Emotional Win!

Everyone is nervous on the first day of school – the kids, the teachers, the administrators, and the parents! Make it GREAT!

Help Your Students Get an Emotional Win!

Get prepped for the first day back to school carefully. Check out the following items.

  • Have supplies, clothing, and food selected ahead of the big day.
  • Knowing Where to Go – does your student know where to go in the school for the beginning of the first day?
  • Give your students something positive to think about as they go through the first day. Example – Lunch recess is going to be fun because you will be with your friends! Coming home after school will be easy! The first day is a minimum day!
  • If possible, have your students meet up with friends to enter school together.
  • Remind your students about classroom behavior for the first day.
  • Talk to your students about the good types of students for them to select for interaction.
  • Plan a special dinner – at home – for the end of the first day of school.

Emotions Rule Attention and Learning

Your students’ mental health is most important. Stress, worry, and fear create a difficult learning situation. It is hard for a student to concentrate, learn, and put information into memory in a way to retrieve it if the mind is focused on a concern.

Parents, talk with your students. Listen to their concerns. These are real for your students. They may not seem so important to you, but they are of the utmost concern to your students. Get help, if needed, as quickly as possible.

Need a Friendly Ear for Your Concerns About Your Students?

Connect with Beth Silver, The Education Sage, to discuss first day of school concerns or what is happening with your students. She will give you 15 minutes of her time – without charge- to help you resolve your students’ problems. You can reach her by phone at 310-720-0390 or by email bethcarolsilver@gmail.com.

Check these websites for more information and answers to problems: https://www.educationsage.net and https://www.edsageschool.com.

Parents Need to Get Ready for Back to School!

Parents are one of the most important factors in creating a successful Back to School Environment.

Schedules

Know your students’ schedules. Make sure your students are on time for school! Be aware of the Back to School Nights, the grading requirements, the marking periods, minimum days, vacation and holiday days. Create your home schedule so that it best supports your students and your family.

Back to School Nights

Go meet the teachers. You will better understand what your students are telling you after you have visited the classrooms and heard from the teachers. Make sure you sign a syllabus if required by a teacher.

Listening to Your Students

Take the time to talk with your students about what happened during the day and the experiences they are having. A lot of the time students will say they did not learn anything new or there was not much work. Dig deeper. You will find a lot of learning happened.

Supplies

Make sure your students have the supplies requested by each teacher. Be aware that papers fall out of folders- get supplies that will secure your students supplies and work. It is important to do a monthly check on your students’ supplies and replace items.
If you can, purchase supplies that would be helpful in a classroom such as Kleenex, paper towels, disinfecting wipes, and extra markers or crayons.

Homework/Study Environment

Work with your students to set up a place for them to do study and homework. Make sure the supplies needed are there. Check your computer connections so your students can access the online homework.

Food-Food-Food

Set up a plan for lunch at school or bringing lunch to school. Additional snacks are important. Make sure you have after-school meals or snacks.

If You Have Concerns About your Students

Don’t wait. Contact the teacher, counselor or principal at school. Get help right away. Situations that are problematic usually don’t get better without any interaction.

If You Need a Friendly Ear

If you want to run your concerns by an expert in the educational field, give Beth Silver, The Education Sage, a call or send her a text to: bethcarolsilver@gmail.com. She is a great source of information and will give you 15 minutes of time for no charge. Phone is 310-720-0390.

Check out the Education Sage websites to learn about Brain Based Coaching for study and learning skills and the accredited Ed Sage School.

Get Organized for Online Summer Courses!

Your student says, “I am taking an online summer course for credit. I must set my own pace. I am not sure how to handle the work, study, and tests. I must view each online lesson. I need help.” What do you do?

Organization for Summer School Online Classes

Setting a pace for an online course and creating a calendar of due dates for assignments is the first step for a student to be successful with an online course. It is necessary to look at all the requirements for the course and create an action plan. Each piece of this plan should have a specific requirement and a due date. One way to keep a record of this plan is to create a document with two columns and place the requirement and due date next to each other. Another way to do this is to put the information on a calendar.

Watching a Lesson Video

A student needs to watch a lesson video and take notes. The video can be stopped to complete notes. It is important to note if there are reading requirements before watching the video and do them. At the end of the video, a student should look at the notes and see if the lesson is summarized in the notes. Next, the student needs to learn what is in the notes for tests. If there are written assignments to do after videos, the students should get them done as close to the time that they have watched the video. If the learning from the video is not clear, then the student should watch the video again.

Tests for Online Courses

Tests for online summer courses vary in difficulty. The student needs to assess how well the information needed for the test is learned. Time spent studying before a test is important. This time should not be rushed.

Tests are constructed with a level of difficulty. Easy tests usually ask basic questions such as definitions and who did what. More difficult tests will ask the reasons why things happened (the cause) and what the results were (the effect). If a student is just learning the basics and not learning the more advanced thoughts and reasons, test taking can be very difficult.

Memory Work for Test Taking

It is important for students to know their individual learning style. Each learning style does best with techniques designed to work for the specific style. The experts at Education Sage, Inc. can help students learn their styles and the techniques that work best for them through the Brain Based Coaching program.

Get Help for Online Summer Courses

The experts at Education Sage, Inc. can guide students to success for an online course for credit. They also can help each student prepare for tests, by explaining and showing the techniques for a student’s individual learning style and guiding their work habits and learning techniques.

Enroll Now

Contact Beth Silver, The Education Sage, at 310-720-0390 or email bethcarolsilver@gmail.com to discuss your student’s needs. Help is available all summer and into the start of the school year to get full credits for all online courses.