What Do I Do When I'm Not On Track?
Generally, if you are unable to submit a piece of Final Work on time, a doctor's sickness certificate is needed for SACE.
Communication is key! Email or speak to your teacher EARLY.
My minimum:
What Happens If I'm Not Submitting Work On Time?
Depending on the situation, the following apply:
Now, let's go through the range of problems a student generally faces...
What are some PRO TIPS to make sure I survive Stage 2?
How Do I Stay Sane in Stage 2?
Referencing
Refer to the MLA Style: http://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/c.php?g=508212&p=3476342
Generally, if you are unable to submit a piece of Final Work on time, a doctor's sickness certificate is needed for SACE.
Communication is key! Email or speak to your teacher EARLY.
My minimum:
- Speak to your teacher AT LEAST 2 days before it is due.
- Signed note from home in your diary explaining the situation. (Family, Illness are acceptable. Laziness is not.)
- Get the work to your teacher as soon as possible. That might mean, dependent on the teacher's discretion, the next morning, email it that night, if sick a reasonable extension may be given.
What Happens If I'm Not Submitting Work On Time?
Depending on the situation, the following apply:
- You spend lunchtimes finishing the work to a GOOD standard.
- I ring home to advise your Parents/Guardians that you haven't submitted on time.
- We negotiate a doable deadline.
- Your weekly bribe amount increases.
Now, let's go through the range of problems a student generally faces...
- "I've lost my USB, and I didn't save it anywhere else." Uh-oh. Important lesson learnt. Tough. You might get a bit more time to finish it. Email work to yourself. To me this sounds like "I didn't do the work until last night, and I didn't prioritise my time."
- "I was busy." Lots of people are.
- "I had work." Many people do.
- "I had other subjects with work due." Unfortunately, many people have more than one responsibility in life. You're learning to juggle these, however your SACE English class is one of those priorities. Set aside time to actually do homework, complete that part of an assignment, submit questions to the group page, know what your deadlines are, and restrict the social life where necessary.
- "I was sick." OK, where's the note from home? I'm usually happy to extend a deadline if you are able to prove it. If it's a DRAFT, a note is fine. If you're not submitting a FINAL, a Doctor's Certificate is needed, otherwise you receive a ZERO (E) grade for that piece.
- "My Email doesn't work." Use someone's email who does. Mum, Dad, Mate, Pet Goat? Find a way to get the work in.
- "I've got half of my Draft done." Well, it's fully due today. You haven't used your time well, haven't communicated with me earlier as I didn't see an email or chat from you, and you will now be spending all of your lunchtimes working on it until it's done. (grab some food first!)
- "I didn't have time to proofread or edit my work." That's sad, because if you give me this, your grade will not bode well. I'm not your first line of proofreading defence. Budget the time to have yourself, 2 peers and an adult read through, writing their notes on the page for you to then change. THEN your teacher gets your work.
What are some PRO TIPS to make sure I survive Stage 2?
- Email your work to yourself - this way you always a have a version to work from, living in your email.
- Take a PHOTO of any handwritten work or drafts - thus proving you did it, and keeping a copy in case it gets lost.
- Upload a copy to a Cloud service, like Google Drive - you only need a Gmail account to use it.
- When submitting, EMAIL and PRINT a HARD COPY for your teacher. Then if you lose it, it still lives in your teacher's inbox.
- If in the words of POTUS Trump it's a YUUUUUUUUGE file you need to send (like an Oral Task Recording Video File), use a file sending service like www.wetransfer.com/ or share it through Google Drive.
- SAVE in multiple places: to a USB, your student laptop, your home PC, your email/cloud account.
- Regularly back up your work.
- Speak to your teacher as soon as you think you might not meet the deadline.
- Postpone that social outing if you really can't spare the time - unfortunately Year 12 is the most demanding workload of your schooling career - you'll have to make some sacrifices, like staying home Saturday evening to finish that Essay instead of that little outing everyone is talking about. ("Booo!" I know.)
- Refer to your Year Outline and balance your assignments. Work with your teachers to organise your time if you haven't already and find this difficult.
How Do I Stay Sane in Stage 2?
- Make some time for yourself. If you're slamming an essay the night before, your anxiety leaps upwards, and your work is probably sub-par in some ways.
- Get enough sleep. A teenager generally needs 8-9 hours a night to absorb new information, feel rested and have that beautiful Kardashian glow.
- Eat well. Try to have 3 meals a day. If breakfast is something you usually skip, and you're always tired and grumpy in the mornings, consider having a piece of toast in the morning - or eggs, cereal, fruits, yoghurt, etc.
- Do some exercise. That might mean a walk around the neighbourhood, a weights set, sweating it out on a treadmill, walking the dog, etc.
- See your friends and be social - in moderation. Consider your responsibilities in terms of work, sport, school. If you made a pie chart of how you spend your time, what would the biggest segments of time spent be? Boyfriend/Girlfriend? School work? Work? Sport? Video games?
Referencing
Refer to the MLA Style: http://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/c.php?g=508212&p=3476342