Soo school is about to start and I'm already worried lol

[English Chick]

.... no advice just

for you...... keep your chin and good spirits up......

 

[sweet tweets]

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So, use the vison/hearing thing to get the seat up front, tape the class - tell teacher if you want, but it is what you need. Find a teacher, even one in "special ed" to help you out. You have a very distinct learning style and you are very aware of the effects on you. Special ed teachers are experts in that field, they will love assisting you!

 

[Blackbird]

I have no advice, but I hope it all works out and that your teachers will begin to help and that you will understand their methods..

Like someone earlier had said, a teacher is there to teach you and help you.
At my old school I had many of the same problems as you, except the teachers simply did not care, they said that if I did not understand it, I was on my own. I was also a good student but I wanted to understand what was being taught, and for some subjects, like math, I didn't. I eventually enrolled online for my high school classes so that I could do my work on my own time without distractions. A lot of the lessons were in video, audio and in text, which worked well so that I could read it over multiple times if I did not understand it.
So if all else fails, that might be an alternative you could look into.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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You can do anything for fifteen minutes. Set a timer and go back and forth between fifteen minutes of homework and ten-minute breaks until you're done.

 

[mom'sfolly]

At my son's middle school, if you get caught with a cell phone in class, it is taken away and it costs $15 to get it back. Your school could do with some rule enforcement.

But, if you have difficulty hearing or processing what the teachers are saying, talk to the teachers. Explain the situation, and ask if they can provide you with notes. Each teacher has notes on their material, and probably has other students with special needs. Since you already know what you need to succeed, ask for the teachers to help you. That is what they are there for, and what they want to do. Ask the teachers to tell you what is most important; for example, does you history teacher think you should know dates of the French Revolution, who killed who, orders of kings or is the teacher interested in causes of the French Revolution and changes the Revolution made in France.

Also use study aides. If you are reading East of Eden read it and the Cliff's notes on it. It will help you pick up what scores of teachers think is important in the novel.

For history/social studies use the computer. Wikipedia will give a page or two that will summarized the chapters in your history book.

Science and math can be tough. Math you either get the concepts or you don't, but repetition of problems always helps. Science can be hard simply because it can be a lot of memorization. If you had Biology last year, Chemistry is probably for this year. Chemistry might be easier for you, because in some ways it is like math. It always works the same, and if you understand the way something works, the answer will always work.

It sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders. It should help you find ways to cope. Good luck and don't panic.

 

[Lucky Ducky]

If you have teachers that will not help, go to your guidance counselor. Most teachers will want to help you succeed. It doesn't look good for them to have a high failure rate. It's unfortunate that your parents don't have more patience for helping you at home.
My oldest DD is getting ready to turn 8, so we are a long way from high school but last year she drove me crazy with her homework. She would tell me that she didn't know the answer and wanted me to give it to her. When I would refuse and explain to her what she needed to do and that she had to do it on her own, she'd pop up with the answers. My DD is smart but we had laziness problems. She just did not want to do her homework. Ok, none of that helped you!

Just my view on one of my kiddos. YOU do not sound lazy like my DD.
I had a college professor that I hated because you'd go in for class and he'd read to you out of the textbook what you need to know and you were expected to highlight it as he talked. OK, I can do that. What sucked was he hated to be interrupted, you would get berrated for asking questions. If you failed a question on a test, you would be berrated because "if you did not understand it, you should have asked questions!!!" Luckily it was only one class.

OK, my advice is start with asking the teachers for help (ie repeating things, sharing their notes or tutoring if necessary, etc). If that doesn't get you the help you need, go to your guidance counelors. As a parent, I want my children to succeed. That being said, get your parents to talk to the teachers or your counselors. If they will at least show up and stand beside you while you are talking to them ( teachers and counselors), you will get taken more seriously. My mom was a single mom who had to work all the time and if I had issues at school, I would get her to go with me while I talked to the adults. It sometimes made them listen better. They couldn't blow me off with some pat comment because she was there supporting me. I spent some time as a drop out before going back to high school and finishing only a year behind. In order to do this, I had to take both junior and senior English at the same time. The school didn't want to at first. It wasn't the normal way. I didn't want to go to summer school and not graduate until fall. I took my mom with me and convinced them to let me do it my way. Not the wrong way, just a bit different. Before my mom went with me, they were holding firm not wanting to let me. I hope this all works out for you!!!!

 

[insiderart]

Here's what I would do for my students who were struggling, you can ask your teacher (each one) to do it for you. I would look over their class notes to see if the student was getting the pertinent information, the important information that I was mainly asking the class learn. What I found was that some students take these long rambly notes and spend so much time on a minutae that they end up missing the next important fact and it snowballs from there.

You should be taking notes like this:

I. Plant anatomical structures

A. Shoots:



B. Stems:


C. Roots:

Very quick outline with enough space left to fill in.. now as the teacher speaks on it.. fill in the information,

I. Plant anatomical structures

A. Shoots: Leaves, petioles, buds, flowers



B. Stems: vascular transport, support,


C. Roots: water uptake, nutrient uptake, support...


Don't get too wordy unless the teacher goes into a specific illustration....
If that happens drop down and start a subsection. I usually draw a box around the header here so I know where it goes. Ex: I would draw a box around A. Shoots....


A. Shoots: Site of photosynthesis, production of glucose from sunlight and water.......

Now when it is time to study, a few days ahead of time make out index cards with the pertinent information. Writing the information again helps to get it in your head, and then you can flip through these cards over and over....and have other people quiz you on the information on each individual card.

HTH

 

[saddina]

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So, use the vison/hearing thing to get the seat up front, tape the class - tell teacher if you want, but it is what you need. Find a teacher, even one in "special ed" to help you out. You have a very distinct learning style and you are very aware of the effects on you. Special ed teachers are experts in that field, they will love assisting you!

Bingo, at the first day of class, stay after a minute, tell the instructor you have hearing/vision issues and must sit in the front row. No kid sitting in the front will be texting etc. Then ask your counselors about recording lectures, it'll be allowed for hearing loss. If you can do the work, they can't shuttle you into special ed, they have to accomidate you where you are. Now then, regarding class specific issues, you have at least a donzen teachers on Byc I'll bet most of us could help with course speific ideas.