by Donna | Mar 21, 2016
Now on to Junior High and High School!
The concept behind the Independent Work List is that it helps a student become, well, independent. In that way, the chart/list/planner should grow with the child—more independence/less neediness.
More responsibility/less spoon feeding from Mom.
These will be in no true order–just some things that I want to re-emphasize from the younger ages as well as things that pertain only to olders.
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by Donna | Mar 10, 2016
Once you have determined that you do need the structure for your student that Independent Work Lists provide for your school, there are many questions to answer and decisions to make. And these decisions will be different according to ages.
Here are some tips for using Independent Work Lists With Elementary Children:
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by Donna | Mar 7, 2016
One of the problems that we hear about over and over again when we are out speaking is that
of students not completing everything that you want them to in any given day. AND keeping
kids on task.
Our solution: Independent Work Lists!
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by Donna | Feb 11, 2016
This week’s Wondering Wednesday answers readers’ questions about how to implement Independent Work Lists for children, especially junior high and high school by using daily check lists. (See the podcast episodes that introduces the concepts of Daily Duties and talks about using charts and lists, work order, teaching independence, and more in last week’s Wondering Wednesday podcast episode here.)
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by Donna | Feb 8, 2016
Twelfth Grade: Teach tight, concise writing.
There are many conciseness techniques that will help your student write tighter, more readable prose. It can be especially difficult for flowery writers to be concise as they often think everything needs described in great detail. Grammar lessons in sentence structure is one easy way to teach more buttoned-up writing. This next tip explains this further…