| Increasing student academic achievement or performance is an
ever present and ongoing challenge. However, many of the usual
or tradtional solutions are not performance based. These 5 quick
tips may help you quickly raise the performance of your students
and school. 1. Raise the bar of expectations. If you have a
grading scale like this one:
Grading Curve: A (93-100), A- (90-92), B+ (87-89),
B (83-86), B- (80-82), C+ (77-79), C (73-76), C- (70-72), D+
(67-69), D (63-66), D- (60-62), F (0-59)
Run do not walk to the nearest garbage can and throw
it away. Raise the bar. Low expectations always
lead to low results. Expect more from your student and tie
those expectations to specific measurements. HINT: If you
actually use this curve for your students, do you use it for
your teachers? See tip #2.
2. Be consistent in rewarding all behaviors or punishing all
behaviors. Also be consistent in your daily beliefs (attitudes)
and behaviors. Be up at all times even when you feel down. Model
consistency to ensure sustainable performancefor your staff or
your students.
3. Communicate clearly your expectations. Don’t presume that
a staff or student knows something. Communicate and verify that
expectation. Remember, conditioning from previous work
experiences, school experiences and home experience is ever
present and that the majority of this conditioning is negative.
4. Place a higher value on academic and
student leadership success than athletic success. Some
schools actually have “Letterman Jackets” for academics.
For it is the academic success that will carry 99% of your
students into the real world, not their athletic abilities.
Return to the previous 3 hints.
5.Remove the waste by evaluating your learning strategies.
For example, if you are using cooperative learning, assess the
skills necessary to be successful. Chances are many young people
lack all of these skills and hence you are not leveraging this
dynamic strategy. A lot of wasted time is being spent on
classroom management issues that should be devoted to engaged
learning.
Leanne Hoagland-Smith, President of ADVANCED SYSTEMS,
works with large urban to private schools, certified staff,
support staff, students and parents to
improve performance that in 30 to 180 days. Using proven
tools, she can quickly and affordably identify the gaps in YOUR
organization, provide you with an Action Plan that you can
easily implement along with developmental programs from
executive leadership to student leadership.
What would the value to you be if everyone within your
school all rowed in the same direction with energy and
enthusiasm?
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
Connecting Passion to Purpose to DOUBLE Performance in
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