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How To Increase Attendance Of Inner City High School Students

The single most important item for thethem better so that you can help them
school administration is the school headwith any issues that may be causing the
count. The number one question that theattendance problem. Above all let them
superintendent needs to know is how manyknow that you care and want to help
students are going to be enrolled inthem. Personal commitment to each
school for the coming year. In orderstudent that you are having trouble with
for the District to get funding it hasis the solution to the problem. Each
to have head count to justify itsstudent has separate issues so you need
expenditure.Corresponding to this is theto tailor your approach to suite their
student count (head count) in yourneeds. If you do this you will find no
classroom. This information is vital toonly is their attendance better but also
your administrators for keeping theiryou will be rewarded with having a
student count in line with thestudent in class that wants to learn and
District’s. Therefore, you haveappreciate you, which will empower you
to be sure to get all of your studentsas a teacher to do better.I was born and
to be on time and in class. Absencesraised on the south side of Chicago in
are in order if there are permissionHyde Park Township, near the University
slips to cover the missing time. Theof Chicago. As I child I was always
real enemy is not absenteeism butdrawing and painting. My father owned an
truancy due to missing classes (cuts).Toart supply company, Favor Ruhl & Watson,
increase and maintain attendance youwhere I was able to get all that I
must on the first day of class get theneeded to progress in my work.I have
student full attention of the class andalways enjoyed portraiture and landscape
explain to them the protocol for schoolpainting. In High School (Naperville
attendance. Explain to them in detailCentral High School) I took Drafting
how the system works and how they canfrom Mr. Pierce. I quickly grasped the
help in you in keeping attendance up toprinciples of perspective and drafting
par. Make these a team effort byand hence made a career with both Fine
encouraging the students to be in class.Art and Architectural Renderings.In the
The best way to do this is withmid 1970's I joined the US Navy and was
communication with the class. Studentsstationed on board the USS Midway,
that cut classes will not be motivatedCV-41. The Midway was home ported in
by extra points on the grade scale, ifYokosuka, Japan (A suburb of Tokyo).
that were the case they would not beWhile in service I traveled all over
cutting class in the first place. TheAsia including such countries as Korea,
best motivator is working personallyChina, Philippines, Singapore, Pakistan,
with those students that are not showingHong Kong, and Japan. While in Japan I
up. Call their home, see them afterlearned Japanese. I speak German and
school. Walk with them and get to knowSpanish as well.



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