{"id":423,"date":"2016-10-20T23:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2016-10-20T23:15:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:15:02","slug":"planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supporting Our Students Manage Their Time<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-424 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/planning.jpg\" alt=\"planning\" width=\"274\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/planning.jpg 600w, http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/planning-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The development of self-management skills are crucial to help our students achieve success.\u00a0 At AISB we work to ensure that students\u2019 calendars are not overloaded with major assessment tasks (these would be tests or performances). This has still been a busy week for many of our students and this has highlighted those needs.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some specific skills that we promote and additional guidance help:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep and use a weekly planner for assignments<\/strong> \u2013 This helps a student visualize what is expected and identify in advance busy times in advance. This should include not only the summative assessment tasks which are shown in Managebac but also homework tasks or service learning requirements or sporting trips.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plan short- and long-term assignments<\/strong> \u2013 The Personal Project is a great example of a truly long-term assignment.\u00a0 Deadlines for every stage of the project have been identified for the year and adequate time provided for these to be met.\u00a0 These deadlines should be considered with respect to the other shorter term assignment deadlines.\u00a0 By grade 10 we expect our students to be able to plan to make the best use of their time and not leave work to the last moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meeting deadlines<\/strong> \u2013 Formative tasks are designed to help students be prepared for summative tasks and the feedback students receive from these is crucial.\u00a0 By meeting these deadlines students provide teachers with the opportunity to give advice on what is required to move forward<\/p>\n<p><strong>Create plans to prepare for summative assessments<\/strong> &#8211; Breaking any assignment into achievable stages and planning these out over time is always preferential to leaving everything to the last minute.\u00a0 This is often reflected by teachers whose lessons will reflect the research stage, or supporting writing a specific section of the task.<\/p>\n<p>So if you get the chance talk to your son and daughter about organization skills and help them be prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporting Our Students Manage Their Time The development of self-management skills are crucial to help our students achieve success.\u00a0 At AISB we work to ensure that students\u2019 calendars are not overloaded with major assessment tasks (these would be tests or performances). This has still been a busy week for many of our students and this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","count-0","even alt","author-neilcommons","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neilcommons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}