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Universally, teachers strive to guide their students to participate in the greatest amount of academic learning time. They want their students to successfully cover all content that will be tested. Teachers struggle against the bell, office announcements, student absences, allotted class time, student misbehaviors, and a myriad of other disturbances that steal precious "time-on-task."
International Christian Academy Online has granted parents ownership of the "Family Calendar," which helps facilitate planning and management. Therefore, your ownership of a student’s daily lesson schedule should be made an easier task.
The scheduling of your student’s work will depend largely upon the variables that reside within your family structure. You will decide at what time of day your student begins and ends school work. You can schedule breaks and recess time to fit your student’s needs and capability. You may decide that more time should be spent on a math lesson versus that day’s history lesson. You may know that your student works and concentrates better in the afternoon or evening, so you schedule his/her work accordingly.
Many times, high school students will have part time jobs, so it is possible to schedule to accommodate that occurrence. On occasion parents and students may see the value of block scheduling.
Not only do you need to schedule your student’s class time, but you will want to schedule a time during the day when you will be able to review his/her work and give guidance for the next day. Since the computer grades 90% to 95% of the work, and the Academy grades the remainder, that in itself frees you up to plan for the next day, week, or month.
The information provided by educational researchers Carroll (1963) and Slavin & Huitt (1997) coupled with parental common sense, confirms that teachers need to be in close proximity to and engaging their student as he/she does his/her daily work.
Finally, it should be said that wisdom dictates that it is not at all helpful to “cyber-sit" one's student nor nonverbally communicate to the student that you’ll check back with his/her work in the next 180 days. These two approaches will produce results that are less than happy or successful.
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