14 Ways to Improve Your Grades if You’re Underperforming
1. Adopt a positive mental attitude
2. Work out where you’re falling short
3. Talk to your teachers
4. Pay more attention in class – and ask questions
5. Start organizing your life
6. Improve your note-taking skills
7. Improve your essay-writing skills
8. Find the right learning style for you
9. Improve your memory
10. Stop procrastinating
11. Allow plenty of time for revision
12. Make learning more fun
13. Hire a private tutor
14. Go on a summer school
How to read the HSC rankings:
Terminology- High Scores: the number of Band 6 scores.
- Total HSC exams sat: the number of merit list course completions.
- 2015 Success Rate: the high scores expressed as a percentage of Entries, rounded to two decimal places.
Over the course
of my educational experience I’ve collected a list of criteria that I
believe create an atmosphere ripe for improving student achievement.
Here I will call it:
Top 10 Ways to Improve Student Achievement and Create Learners
Disclaimer: This is by no means all that schools should be doing. Note that these are broad actions; there are many more detailed actions that need to be taken.
Disclaimer: This is by no means all that schools should be doing. Note that these are broad actions; there are many more detailed actions that need to be taken.
1. Share a Vision
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2. Your School Should Be a Change Agent
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3. Analyze Data
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4. Introduce Students to Their Data
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5. Increase Rigor
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7. Expectations
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8. Teach Students How to Learn
— Students are taught what to learn. In order for them to be
successful as learners, they also have to discover how to learn and to develop an appetite for learning.
I’m convinced that one of the reasons some students do not succeed in
college is that they sail through high school learning the prescribed
curriculum, but never learn how to learn.
Students, at an early age have to be taught how to:
• self-regulate their learning
• set their own academic goals
• develop strategies to meet their goals
• reflect on their academic performance
• self-regulate their learning
• set their own academic goals
• develop strategies to meet their goals
• reflect on their academic performance
9. Teachers as Learners Environment
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10. Teach Smarter and Not Harder
— Incorporate research-based teaching and learning strategies. In order
to grow the district and its teachers need to be on top of
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