How can I help very low achiever students?

[Ms.Safaa]

Just curious, how can i as a teacher, help my very very very low achiever students(teenagers 14 to16yrs)?

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm just curious - how can I, as a teacher, help my very, very, very low-achieving students space required here (teenagers, 14 to16 yrs years old)?

Welcome to the forum.
First, please take a look at my corrections above. As you're a teacher, we expect you to capitalise and punctuate correctly so please check all your posts before you submit them.

We'll need more information if we're to be able to help you.

Are all your students performing poorly or is it a small number within a larger class?
Are you teaching them privately or do you teach at a school?
Are you able to choose your own teaching resources or do you have to teach from a prescribed list?
How do you currently teach them (what methods do you use) and how much leeway do you have when deciding on those methods?

 

[Ms.Safaa]

Thank you first for answering but i thought- as it was my first time to post in your respectful site - that it's an informal writing as its a chatty chat between fellow teachers so i was not that accurate for my grammar ,punctuations then i just needed a professional advice not to start my own blog or a study on that topic just friendly type of experienced teachers advice ...one more time thanks for being so specific and perfect.

 

[emsr2d2]

First, thank you first for answering but I thought, as it was my first time to posting in on your respectful [respected] site, that it's an I could use informal writing as it's a chatty chat between fellow teachers.

Note all my corrections above. There's no such thing as "informal writing" here. This is an English language forum and our sole aim is to ensure that all our members learn/use correct written and spoken English. You're an English teacher so we assume you know how to capitalise and punctuate correctly. If that's the case, please make sure you do both correctly on this forum. If you don't know how to do so, I don't see how you can teach other learners.

so I was not that accurate for with my grammar no comma here or punctuations punctuation. then I just needed a some professional advice, not to start my own blog or a study on that topic, just friendly type of experienced teachers' advice. One more time, thanks for being so specific and perfect.

Note my corrections above. I don't know what the underlined parts mean. I never thought you were trying to start a blog. You asked for help with teaching some of your students.

In post #2, I asked you three clear questions, the answers to which will help us to help you. You haven't answered any of them. Please do so in your next response.

Notes on the corrections - you'll notice that I had to correct your uncapitalised first person singular pronoun every time. You presented post #3 as a single, very long sentence with no punctuation to break it up. You need to separate the sentences and thoughts with appropriate punctuation.

 

[Ms.Safaa]

If you dont see how i can teach other students so you never did ..... whats wrong with (informal writing) ? Teachers are born to help others not to pick little mistakes to get over their heads and say depressing words about any wrongs.

 

[Ms.Safaa]

Welcome to the forum.
First, please take a look at my corrections above. As you're a teacher, we expect you to capitalise and punctuate correctly so please check all your posts before you submit them.

We'll need more information if we're to be able to help you.

Are all your students performing poorly or is it a small number within a larger class?
Are you teaching them privately or do you teach at a school?
Are you able to choose your own teaching resources or do you have to teach from a prescribed list? How do you currently teach them (what methods do you use) and how much leeway do you have when deciding on those methods?

It was not three clear questions , it was more than three and the last one was not as clear as you said it is ambigious question.

 

[probus]

@Ms.Safaa: as you are a newbie in this forum, I will forgive the tone of your latest posts. But please understand this: our students may assume that all the answers they read in this forum are in correct English. That is why we correct all mistakes , even those that you may consider trivial.

 

[emsr2d2]

If you dont see how I can teach other students so you never did, no ellipsis here what's wrong with "informal writing"?

Yet again, you failed to capitalise the first person singular pronoun. I don't know what the underlined part means. Your ellipsis had no place there. You omitted an apostrophe. Don't use brackets instead of quotation marks.
The problem with what you call "informal writing" is that this is a public forum used by people who want to improve their English. They can read posts in every sub-forum, including this one. It's not a private sub-forum just for teachers. We want them to see correct English every time they read a post by a native English speaker or by someone whose profile says they're an English teacher.

Teachers are born to help others, not to pick up on all little mistakes to get over their heads and say depressing words about any wrongs errors.

It's clear that you don't think that our correcting all errors is "helping others". That's exactly what we're doing. I don't know what the underlined part means.

It was not three clear questions; it was more than three and the last one was not as clear as you said. It is an ambiguous question.

You're right that it was more than three - it was four questions and you still haven't answered any of them. What's ambiguous about the fourth question?

 

[Ms.Safaa]

@Ms.Safaa: as you are a newbie in this forum, I will forgive the tone of your latest posts. But please understand this: our students may assume that all the answers they read in this forum are in correct English. That is why we correct all mistakes , even those that you may consider trivial.

Forgive what? Execuse me , what exactly that you should forgive as i have been attacked since i just sent one post asking for strategies to help low achievers ? Tone of what please you labeled my words as you dont understand so it wasn't that ?!!!!

 

[emsr2d2]

Forgive what? Execuse Excuse me, what exactly that do you should need to forgive? as I have been attacked since I just sent wrote one post asking for strategies to help low achievers.

Note my corrections above, again! Your tone is rude and belligerent and you have made it clear that you are not prepared to take notice of or advice from the members here.
We've told you what we need (answers to those four questions) and that you need to write correct English here and you have failed to do both.

Tone of what please you labeled my words as you dont understand so it wasn't that ?!!!!

I don't understand this sentence at all.

I am locking this thread. If and when you're ready to come back and be polite, accept our help and our corrections, and answer those four questions so that we can effectively help you, feel free to start a new thread.