keep up with your students’ grades, attendance, discipline, assignments, and tardies
Get Connected: Keeping Up With Your Student
By Dr. Vicky L. Ferguson
I am amazed that every parent at MHS is not connected to ParentConnect After I played with it and realized what it can do, I came to the conclusion that many of you do not understand the opportunity that you are passing up. So, I have taken it as my responsibility to enlighten everyone to how easy and wonderful it is to be able to keep up on line with your students’ grades, attendance, discipline, assignments, and tardies. Your student will probably accuse you of being "big brother." We prefer to think of it as acting on two of our beliefs:
- Every Student has a responsibility for learning
- A partnership among teachers, parents and stakeholders increases learning
What are the advantages of using ParentConnect? You can check your students’ assignments, grades, attendance, discipline, and tardies any time day or night. There is also an added advantage that you may not know about. You can click on settings at the top of the screen and request that you be notified automatically if your student has a discipline incident, unexcused absence, tardies, missing assignments, failing score. This is parent/school communication at its best. This exemplifies our belief that a partnership among teachers and parents increases learning.
So what do you do if you get one of these notices? Call the teacher? No. Let’s apply the belief that every student is responsible for learning.
Steps To Take To Get More Information:
- Log on to Parent Connect and click on the pencil with "assignment" written on it for information concerning missing assignments or a failing score.
- Set the time period to the appropriate time. Then you should be able to tell where the missing assignment is.
- Call your student into the room and share the screen with him/her. (This usually gets a gasp in response.) He/She should be able to tell you the information you need.
- If this continues to be a problem, you should call or e-mail the teacher.
If we are to make students responsible for their learning, we must go to them with the questions that require an explanation from them about why they missed an assignment or received a failing grade or skipped school. It is only if the behavior persists do we want to take it out of the hands of the student and put it into the hands of the teacher. So, now you’re thinking, "I need to get connected!" See below.
How To Get Connected
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