REPORTS 1st TERM - REMINDER

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 25^th  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