March 2010
March 9, 2010 by Spamp ·
We are just days away from CSAP testing. We have been preparing all year and we are ready to go! Thanks for your support. For a listing of dates/times please see the link for our testing calendar.
Recently we sent home a letter, from the district, discussing the fiscal concerns for the next school year. During the past week, Thomas Jefferson High School received our operating budget for 2010 – 2011. As expected, we will be facing reductions. We are committed to providing the best service that we can to students and still maintain a balanced budget.
We have been looking ahead to our vision for the future, as well. We want to continue to grow the options that our students have for past secondary success. There is a link on our web page outlining our proposal. We have submitted a school improvement grant to the district requesting 1.8 million, over the next three years, to fund this proposal. We will find out in March if we receive funding.
While economic times are difficult, we are still committed to meeting the needs of our community. We will update you, as new information becomes available.
Spartan Edition: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
February 23, 2010 by Spamp ·
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CSAP Tip #7: Don’t Freak Out! Reducing Test Taking Anxiety
February 23, 2010 by Spamp ·
Relax! It can make all the difference in the way you perfume on test.
Test anxiety is when a student excessively worries about doing well on a test. This can become a major hindrance on test performance and cause extreme nervousness and memory lapses among other symptoms.
The following are tips on reducing test taking anxiety:
• Space out your studying over a few days or weeks and continually review class material. Don’t try to learn everything the night before.
• Try to maintain a positive attitude while preparing for the test and during the test.
• Exercising for a few days before the test will help reduce stress.
• Get a good night’s sleep before the test.
• Show up to class early so you won’t have to worry about being late.
• Stay relaxed, if you begin to get nervous take a few deep breaths slowly to relax yourself and then get back to work.
•Read the directions slowly and carefully.
• If you don’t understand the directions on the test, ask the teacher to explain it to you.
• Skim through the test so that you have a good idea how to pace yourself.
• Write down important formulas, facts, definitions and/or keywords in the margin first so you won’t worry about forgetting them.
Spartan Edition: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
February 9, 2010 by Spamp ·
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Spartan Edition: Monday, February 8, 2010
February 8, 2010 by Spamp ·
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CSAP Tip #6: Practical Tips for Reading Critically-Academic Prose
February 7, 2010 by Spamp ·
Adapted from Joshua Page, “Practical Tips for Reading Sociology”
Reading scholarly books and articles critically requires a specific method and strategy that makes it very different from reading for fun, or reading to survey a work. If you care to get the most out of the materials you are assigned, you have to learn to read critically or analytically, that is, to break down an argument into its constituent parts (explandum, explanans, premises, hypotheses, theorems, laws and mechanisms, conclusions and corollaries, ramifications for other theories or arguments), retrace its major stages and turns, evaluate its strengths, weaknesses, and validity, and grasp its implications (empirical, theoretical, moral, practical, and so forth). Here are some practical tips to help you do just that.
Always read with a purpose. Moving your eyes across a printed page is not critical reading! Reading with a purpose means asking a question (or, better yet, a system of questions) that you keep in mind as you progress and that helps you put the pieces of the puzzle together. So always identify from the outset what the author intends to do in the writing, how s/he proposes to do it, and what kind of arguments s/he develops (causal, historical, interpretive, etc.).
Spartan Edition: Friday, February 5, 2010
February 5, 2010 by Spamp ·
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Spartan Edition: Thursday, February 4, 2010
February 4, 2010 by Spamp ·
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Spartan Edition: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
February 3, 2010 by Spamp ·
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Spartan Edition: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
February 2, 2010 by Spamp ·
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