New Classes for 8th Graders Starts Tomorrow!

Dear 8^th Grade Students and Parents:

 

We are very excited to announce that we are going to begin a new class for each 8^th grader beginning tomorrow (January 31st).  For the first half of the year we have had all our Junior High students in technology classes, as directed by the IB program.  However, we have now realized that many of our 8^th graders in particular would benefit more from targeted classes designed to help them with an area of weakness, or greater potential strength.  We are going to be referring to these as intervention classes, with each student assigned to a particular area of intervention based on their individual needs. 

Our process for determining the intervention class for each student was this:  on Friday, January 27th, the administration and all of the 8^th grade teachers met together.  We analyzed each student’s course work, class test results, and prior years CRT results in each subject.  Using that data we went through an individualized analysis of each 8^th grader to determine where we could provide the most impactful targeted interventions for each of them.  Using this data and the teachers’ personal insight on each student, we placed students in subject specific classes (e.g. math, science, business technology, reading) or different study skills classes.  While some students were placed in a subject class because they were struggling, others were placed in a subject matter class because we believe that they haven’t fully capitalized on what could be the subject of their greatest strength.  Alternatively, some students were assigned to study skills to allow them to have more time to work on homework in subjects they already seem to grasp, while others were placed in a study skills class to work with a teacher on a particular need (e.g. test taking strategies or organization).  These classes may be intervening where there is a weakness, a strength the student could maximize, a particular issue to be addressed, or simply to provide a new challenge to a student at risk of becoming bored in their current classes. 

While some of these students may spend the entire semester in the same intervention class, other students may be rotated into various classes once a skill or subject has been mastered.  We will communicate with your students when that is the case. 

Thank you for the support in this change.  We hope you and your students find this targeted approach beneficial.

Providence Hall Faculty and Administration

9th Grade Student Education Occupation Plans

Attention Parents/Guardians:

Over the course of the next few weeks (January 18, 2012 – February 16, 2012) the Counseling Department at Providence Hall Junior High will be conducting Student Education Occupation Plans (SEOP’s) with the 9^thgrade students. Because student success is a partnership between students, parents, and faculty, we ask for your participation in reviewing your student’s academic progress and his or her plans for the future. Please follow the instructions below to sign up for a date and time with the counselor assigned to your student’s last name. Be sure to include your student’s name, your name, and your contact information.

To sign up for a date and time enter the following link into your internet browser:

www.ptcfast.com/reg1

At that link, you will be asked for an Entry Code. Please enter the Entry Code assigned to your student’s last name.

Last Names A – L:  Tyler Harlan, Entry Code:  KHC113654

Last Names M - Z: Emily Tulip, Entry Code: Y18113652

If you do not have internet access and would like to sign up for an SEOP please contact your student’s counselor by phone. If you are unable to arrange a time to attend, your student’s SEOP will be conducted individually with his or her counselor.

Spanish Class Voluteers Needed!

Ms. Sprazoff is looking for people to come to her Spanish Culture class to talk about places they have lived.  If you have lived in a Spanish speaking country, please sign up!

Click here to volunteer