Looking for suggestions! Registration for next year
has started and I am seeking ways to get everyone on board. For a month, we
have been notifying teachers on the registration process. Students have a
registration form that they present to each teacher. The teacher looks at it
and determines placement for students and then signs off. Elective classes are
also listed and students choose their elective. Again, it is checked and signed
off. Students who have an incomplete
schedule will participate in ‘Elective Arena’ that is over a 2 day period
during student lunch time. During this time, counselors are available to look
at student schedules and determine any class(es) that a student is needing or
missing.
As we wrapped up this process, we identified over
450 students that have incomplete schedules. The majority of the missing
classes for these students is NOT electives but core classes. This means that
core teachers did not do what was asked of them. Again, teachers were notified
for over a month and reminded daily of the process. Now this grueling task
falls on administration to look at course history, ask teachers, and complete
the schedule. Our administrative team is happy to help however it is
frustrating that we have to now clean up what some teachers should have
handled. We understand that there will be a few ‘stragglers’ but 450 students
is a lot of students.
So I am looking for suggestions of how to get
teachers (not all teachers) on board with the process and help them understand
the importance of this. How do other schools tackle this process? Any
suggestions are welcomed!!!
Hey Paula,
ReplyDeleteWas there a time set aside for this process? If there was not a set time, you may want to consider that in the future and have a teacher sign-off roster in Google docs once they have completed their assigned students' schedules. This way, you can see early who is not assisting students to complete the schedules and address those individuals.
Paula, your curriculum AP should take advantage of the counselors. That is who I have doing my schedule verification. Counselors are working on the students that fall on their caseloads. If a counselor does not have a caseload, I gave them some students from the other counselors caseload. I also did documentation of oral conferences with teachers that did not complete their students' registration. Luckily for me, there were only two teachers out of 108 to include Special Education. Eventhough I am transferring to another school, I recommended that next year, all teachers will complete their registration in the lab, the Administrator will sign off. It is a big mistake to allow them to complete the process at home or on their own time.
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