As we get ready to take our technology a step further in my school with the use of PowerSchool and expand the way we communicate with the parents by opening a portal thru which parents and students from home can see how a student is doing by viewing their grades online, our principal shared this link with us. I found it very interesting and thought some of you might enjoy reading it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/fashion/04edline.html?_r=1%26emc=eta1%26pagewanted=print
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Very interesting article! There are so many pros and cons to this type of program. It's great that parents have an opportunity to be aware of how their child is doing in school before they receive a final grade on their report card. They then have an opportunity to help their child to turn things around. I honestly don't think that grounding or punishing helps all students achieve a better grade on the next test. Like it mentioned in the article, it may just increase anxieties and put a stress on achieving a good grade by any means necessary.
“It’s like having our parents or guardians stand over us and watch us all day at school, waiting for us to slip up.” It seemed like that's what some parents were doing by checking the program 3 or 4 times a day. This is not providing the child with a sense of responsiblity but instead a sense of fear.
I do think the program can be beneficial. Maybe it could be updated periodically, showing the progress of the student every 2 weeks or so. This could give the student a chance to take responsibility and try to rectify the situation. It would also give a more broad view of the students' progress. A teacher could also provide comments on these "electronic progress reports" in order to give the parents a background on why their child may not be doing well. This information could help the parents help the child instead of just punishing them.
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