School is Easy Learning Consultation

Academic Foundation Script

Note: This script has been written to align with the Learning Consultation Slide Deck

INTRODUCTION & Purpose of using the Academic Foundation Tool:

To identify any possible downward grade pattern in the subject(s) child is struggling with.
To exemplify the importance of first learning & mastering foundational principles in order to progress successfully through to the higher grades.

Prepare for this slide ahead of time by:

hyperlinking the  “Academic Foundation” slide title ink to the Consultation Tool: Academic Foundation (Word doc)
know how to use the Shapes tool to insert and draw a line on the Word doc.

<Notes: Refer back to your Student Profile (Question 4) notes and for the subject child is most struggling with (usually math or English/reading) walk the parent through the following exercise>

START

<say>

So let me talk to you about your child’s the academic foundation. I'm just going to pull up another document here.

We’re going to review his/her current year and past years marks in <subject of concern> to see if there might be a trend or pattern and if there is I’ll propose a reason for that trend.

Let’s get started.

So you told me that <child’s name(s)> is in about the X% mark in X subject.

What was <child’s name(s)>’s mark last year in that subject? Do you recall?

Okay.

Do you recall where he might have been the year before that?

Okay, grade X?