Do you plan to work on curriculum over the winter holiday? Then please read…
If your student is behind in any courses or would like to get ahead in courses, the winter break is a great time to do lessons.
However, keep in mind two important goals in CAVA:
1) CAVA is a mastery-based curriculum. We want our students to strive for understanding, mastery, and retention.
2) Developing good study skills and study habits will help students be life-long learners, beyond their CAVA education. We want our students to strive toward building solid study skills and study habits that they can take with them into any learning experience. Many middle school students are still learning how to persevere through a difficult lesson, how to stay motivated to complete an entire day’s worth of lessons each and every school day, and how to be more independent in their studies. Be cautious of having students “cram” several weeks worth of curriculum into two weeks time.
With those goals in mind, we want to be cautious of having students complete too much coursework over the winter break if they have been behind in their courses. On a typical school week, we expect students to strive to make 2 ½ to 3% progress in each of their courses. Because mastery of curriculum is important, if a student does complete more than this over the winter break, I’ll need to verify his/her mastery of the content covered. If your student completes more than 7% progress in a course over the winter break, please plan to have your student verify his/her mastery with me. Your student should plan to submit work completed in the course (offline work, worksheets, math problems/work shown, essays/short answers, etc.). I may also want to have a conference with your student (by phone or in Blackboard) where we can have a discussion about the curriculum learned.
Thank you!
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