This last week, your young scholars worked on formatting characters, words and blocks of text within a document. They also learned how to make lists with bullet points, numbered lists and multi-tiered lists. A fun task they took on was to create their own bullet point graphics. They also learned to set tab stops eliminating tab keystrokes and still have nicely lined columns.
This coming week, students are going to learn more about and execute formatting document properties including but not limited to working with document formatting; changing paper size, orientation, and margins; inserting page and section breaks; work with columns of text; insert page numbers, insert headers and footers; apply themes or change backgrounds. To completely wrap up this week, students will need to update their Create project. I will update the requirements for the create project on Wednesday. I highly encourage you to ask your young scholar to see their Create project. This is not only a portfolio project where they are learning to use the lessons they learned in “real life”, but also how to be good digital citizens and protect themselves online. As we are mid-quarter, parents, I encourage you to look at your students grades with them. Focus especially on the progress, behavior and create needs. Parents, not only am I teaching your children the requirements to earn a professional certification but also professional courtesy, behavior and project requirements. As you know, in the professional world, deadlines are commonplace. They are expectations of an employer that a staff member can be relied upon to meet objectives and execute their assigned duties. If your student has missed deadlines, they have a participation or create score that reflects their level of contribution or (in)ability to meet a deadline. I ask you to emphasize the importance of meeting deadlines and encourage them to do so. Another aspect is proper behavior. Usually, when disciplinary action is required, it comes in the form of verbal warning, written warning, final notice and then, many times, termination. In my class, each student begins the week with 10 behavior points. If I have to address behavior(s), they get the symbolic warnings and notices. Then I begin to take points away. If your student has less than 10 points, in any behavior category, I encourage you to speak to them and solicit their response as to why they lost points and went beyond “final notice”. I ask you to encourage them to pursue full marks in behavior. Again, as we are mid-quarter, students have an opportunity to maintain positive performance and an opportunity to change to a positive performance if needed. I appreciate your continued support of our students and the training they are undertaking in my class. Have a wonderful weekend and see you on Monday. Please feel free to email me should you have any questions.
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