He told me that, by this point in the year, you can kind of tell the sorts of students that you will have for the next eight months based on their actions in those first few weeks. If they failed to turn in a number of less complex assignments, it would be unlikely that they would have a positive trend in the homework completion piece of their grade by the time the trimester rolled around. This conversation stemmed directly from an interaction with Devon, who had questions about assignments he had failed to complete in the few days before. I found myself asking so many questions about the circumstances in this moment – “What is his home situation like? Does he have any extra curricular activities that are sucking up his time? What is his family support network like? Do we know why he hasn’t completed these assignments yet? Is he understanding what he is being asked to do?” – but they fell on deaf ears, because I failed to ask them anywhere outside of my own
He told me that, by this point in the year, you can kind of tell the sorts of students that you will have for the next eight months based on their actions in those first few weeks. If they failed to turn in a number of less complex assignments, it would be unlikely that they would have a positive trend in the homework completion piece of their grade by the time the trimester rolled around. This conversation stemmed directly from an interaction with Devon, who had questions about assignments he had failed to complete in the few days before. I found myself asking so many questions about the circumstances in this moment – “What is his home situation like? Does he have any extra curricular activities that are sucking up his time? What is his family support network like? Do we know why he hasn’t completed these assignments yet? Is he understanding what he is being asked to do?” – but they fell on deaf ears, because I failed to ask them anywhere outside of my own