HAPPY
ENGLISH YL REPORTS
NOVEMBER 2016
Why write reports for young learners?
Parents want to know how their child is
behaving and progressing. It’s also a great opportunity to sort out any
problems before they become ingrained.
What’s the deadline?
We need all the reports in by Friday,
November 25th so that we can check and hand them out
before the Puente (December long weekend).
How to write reports for young learners:
***New teachers, arrange a date and time
to come and see John or Nuria so we can do a few reports together.
1. Open
ACADEMIES ALTS, select “Happy English” and your name from the dropdown menus,
click “Search” and double click the group you want to write reports for.
2. In the top
left corner you’ll see tabs for Results/CA/Reports/Attendance. Click on the
Reports tab.
3. Select the
Period – in this
case “Winter term 1” and click on the “Create/Edit/View report” button.
4. In the top
left corner you will see a list of your students in this group. Select the
student you want to write a report for and click on their name. If you see any
students who are shaded in grey, they’ve dropped out, you do NOT need to write
a report for them.
5. REPORT
COMMENTS:
There
are several categories, and these categories vary from level to level. You will
only be permitted to select ONE comment in most of the categories, unless it
states otherwise. Select and double click the most appropriate comment.
The comments you’ve selected will appear in the lower window. You can now
minimise the dropdown list of comments and move on to the next category.
You’ll see that some categories are “optional”. Please select comments from
these sections only if applicable. If you find there is a category with no
comments, it’s because this category applies to different term than the current
one.
FAQs:
· What if my
student is a girl? Don´t
worry! All the translated Catalan comments are gender-neutral.
· Why does
it say “the language”, rather than “English” à the
reports are designed to be used for all our YLs, regardless of the language
they’re learning
· What are
the Course Objectives? àsee the text below for
guidelines
6. There are
two editable categories: Recommendations
for struggling students and “Rounding Off comment You can
choose one of the pre-written comments or you can write in your own
personalised recommendation or comment. If you want to add a personalised comment,
select “IF YOU WANT TO ADD YOUR OWN COMMENT...”. Then, double click on that
comment in the lower window and you will be able to type in your comment in
Catalan (no need to translate it into English!).
7. Changing a
comment – if you want to change a selected comment, click on DELETE in the
lower window next to the comment. Then double-click on the correct comment in
the upper window. It will now appear as the last comment in the lower window.
DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE ORDER OF THE COMMENTS. Everything will be in the correct
order when the reports are printed/emailed.
8. When
you’ve finished your reports in that group, click on Edit Finish to
save them. It’s not necessary to click on Edit Finish between every report.
9. For your
information, the attendance is from the start of the course to
the end of October. The programme will automatically count up the
attendance and enter it in the report for you! Please make sure that the
attendance is entered correctly in Academies ALTS.
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Guidelines for Course Objectives
Levels INF, N1-N6
Enjoyment, Active participation, Interest
and effort
Cooperation with teacher + classmates
Learns (most of) the vocabulary (and
grammar)
(Starts to) communicate in English, using
the classroom language phrases and generating phrases of his/her own, even
though they may not be accurate.
Meeting the course objectives
Meeting course objectives means more than
the child is learning the vocab etc.; it incorporates all the items in the
above list.
NOTES:
-a child who is average for the class and
a child who is doing well are both meeting course objectives.
-a child in INF level is meeting the
objectives even if he doesn’t say anything (because he not ready to) but shows
he knows the vocabulary by pointing at the right flashcard for e.g. (Bear in
mind that speaking the language is NOT the main objective in
INF level, although many children are happy to repeat and even say phrases)
Struggling to meet course objectives
A child who doesn’t seem to be learning
much or enjoying the classes, is struggling to meet course objectives. You need
to see John/Nuria if you want to use this comment.
John
12/11/2016
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