Effective High Schools teach their students how to study.

I have just posted the following in my blog:  'myschoollovesme'

Yes I do mean 2017.

Heard about 2016 final year Australian high school students stressed out as they front to their HSC exams.  I accept that there might be nerves something like before an important footy or netball match in which you are about to participate.  But being stressed out means that whoever is in this state is probably not well prepared for the big exams.  No blame apportioned as it might be you or your school failing to teach you how to study or some combination of both.

2017 final year students make sure you ask your school to teach you how to study.  This is different from homework and I have written at length about it in a previous post for this blog.  Your school must teach you how to study as it part of the brief of an effective high school.

Get on to it now 2017 final year students and apply the study techniques and you won't be stressed to the max when the big moment arrives.  Trust me.  Been there at secondary and tertiary level and want you to do well.

Enough already!


GD

WA Goldfields High School Trashed

How sad I was to read of the severe trashing of the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School soon after the State Minister for Education had unveiled a completely refurbished school.  The refurbishment cost $45 million.

The perpetrators were young children of 10 to around 13.  Apparently this group roam pretty much unchecked around the Kalgoorlie community.  One has to feel the sense of loss for the main student body in having this pristine school taken from them by needless vandalism.

My sympathy also to the principal and his staff members.  Do not lose heart.  If you have not already done so create a vibrant student wellbeing program in the full sense of what this means.  If you need expert help in this I strongly recommend you contact the Melbourne University Graduate School of Education under Professor John Hattie.  They know how to get out on the ground and create student wellbeing programs.  Such a program  will win out in the end and even the young vandals may get to feel that school is a safe place where they are respected and yes even loved.

Enough already!


GD