Get Organized!!
Here are a few tips for students who would like to be more organized. Please feel free to contact your counselor (Mr. Gross, Mrs. Quinlan or Ms. Grecco) if you would like to discuss this further.
Suggestions/Tips At School
1. Write Down Assignments! This may sound like a no brainer but most students who earn low grades do not write down their assignments. Some successful students use an daily assignment notebook. Some use their IPad - a remind app, Google calendar or they take a picture of the assignments that the teacher wrote down. I still recommend an assignment notebook. Here's some additional tips...
• Write each assignment under the date that it is assigned.
• Write down when it is due.
• Check off or cross out each assignment when it is completed.
• Write down dates of all tests and quizzes and write down study reminders.
2. Find a place to put your assignments. Do not put your homework just anywhere in your binder or locker. Use the color coded folders in your binder. Take your binder home every night.
3. Use Post-It/Sticky Notes as reminders - "Take Home" or "Read Chapter 4".
4. Take Things Home (and bring them back). If you use a backpack, hang it on the back hook of your locker with the zipper facing the door. Unzip your backpack so you can just put take home books/assignments right in your backpack after each class. That way at the end of the day you are not staring at your locker thinking..."Do we have Social Studies homework?" All of your homework will already be in your backpack.
5. Keep Your Binder & Locker in Order. The nice thing about middle school is that each student has his/her own binder and locker. Successful students usually keep both somewhat organized. It is a good idea to clean out your binder and locker at least once a week - maybe every Friday during SSP.
• Write each assignment under the date that it is assigned.
• Write down when it is due.
• Check off or cross out each assignment when it is completed.
• Write down dates of all tests and quizzes and write down study reminders.
2. Find a place to put your assignments. Do not put your homework just anywhere in your binder or locker. Use the color coded folders in your binder. Take your binder home every night.
3. Use Post-It/Sticky Notes as reminders - "Take Home" or "Read Chapter 4".
4. Take Things Home (and bring them back). If you use a backpack, hang it on the back hook of your locker with the zipper facing the door. Unzip your backpack so you can just put take home books/assignments right in your backpack after each class. That way at the end of the day you are not staring at your locker thinking..."Do we have Social Studies homework?" All of your homework will already be in your backpack.
5. Keep Your Binder & Locker in Order. The nice thing about middle school is that each student has his/her own binder and locker. Successful students usually keep both somewhat organized. It is a good idea to clean out your binder and locker at least once a week - maybe every Friday during SSP.
