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21 March 2013

MENTORS IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS MUST HAVE CLEAR OBJECTIVES AND DETAILED DAILY OPERATIONAL NOTES TO USE (2)

WHAT NIGERIAN SECONDARY STUDENTS NEED MOST ARE MENTORS/LIFE COACHES NOT “TEACHERS” (3)


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 NOTES COMPLETION / HAND WRITING / TEXT BOOK INTEGRITY CHECKS / OTHER ACADEMIC TOOLS CHECKS (WEDNESDAYS)


33.This is one of the most important parts of the mentoring work in the school and mentors are advised to do 3 things always before each Wednesday or the day fixed by management for any of these checks.


(a)   Having a record of the maximum number of expected notebooks per student and ensuring that their students have filled and submitted the relevant form previously (subject choices available to ss1 – ss3 form). In fact the mentor should keep a copy of these forms for each of their students in their operational files.


(b)   Continually encourage their wards to have tutors sign or initial their notebooks for completion throughout the week before the D-day for checking. But mentors have to watch out for possible trickery by students notebook covered with his own outer casing as evidence that his or her notes are complete.


(c)    Continually remind their students about weekly checks and the need to bring all notebooks to school on D-day.


34.Marks awarded or penalties deducted shall of course be related to the actual number of completed notes submitted. Although deductions shall be related logically to those not yet submitted, gross violation of expected rules shall lead to the award of zero to the student concerned. For instance completeness amounting to 25% or more of expected notes shall be treated as gross violation.


35.Mentors are to note that they shall be expected to provide appropriate comments whenever necessary on handwriting and other integrity checks such as on the availability of textbooks or other academic tools. This can be done in line with school calendars or according to random checks on their students but promptly agreed with management. Random checks mean a deviation from the checking of notes for completion. It does not imply that students shall not be informed in advance about what mentors intend to check.


36.All checks for textbooks and other academic tools shall however be expected to take place before the mid-term examinations.


37.Mentors are to please note that some integrity checks are usually included within the calendars prepared by management for each term. They should please work with these calendars in mind except if amended by management.


38.Mentors do have a very challenging job on their hands in relation to what is called the Notebook Integrity Project (NIP). The relevant write-up which converts the project into a tool for mentors and school management is to be found in the section of Eduguide for staff members. This check has to be planned carefully as substitute work for Notes Completion checks but the focus and length of time involved are different. Mentors are therefore advised to read this write-up carefully, because it is one of the most important ever prepared on the issue of notes completion for students anywhere in the world.\


39.Mentors are to note from the NIP that students who have spent more than one year in the school are expected to combine notes of the years gone by with those of their current classes in such a way that all notes of JS 1 – 3 or SS 1 – SS3 classes are bunched together.


NOVEL SUMMARY SCHEME / ORAL ENGLISH / PUBLIC SPEAKING (THURSDAYS)


40.Each student is basically expected to have a wide vocabulary of English words, understand lots of idiomatic expressions and ultimately be in good position to express himself/herself appropriately. It does not matter whether the school is in the private or public domain. In Mason College students are usually launched into orbit by being asked to give words of exhortation at the daily school assembly .


41.For this purpose also, there are write-ups to support mentors. There are write-ups covering public speaking, vocabulary improvement, spellings, idiomatic expressions,famous quotations etc in the students and staff sections of Eduguide. There are also library-related guidelines, and write-up related to modern retrieval and research methods to boost preparation of students and staff for this purpose. Even where public speeches are not required there are also write-ups on the techniques of writing reports which mentors can read and interpret or convert to acceptable levels of understanding for their wards.


42.The Academic Group shall determine the fortnight cycles or turnovers to be used for the Novel Summary Scheme. These shall be done through the calendars usually prepared at the beginning of each term. The operation of this scheme cannot be successful without keeping to the rules guiding the use of the school libraries (at  school location as well as at Bookends).


43.The objective of the scheme is to get each student show  in the first week of each cycle that he or she actually collected a novel for reading. By the end of the fortnight or even before its end the student must write at least a half page  summary of the novel based on certain guidelines of the Novel Summary which were divided into types A, B or C (these shall be specified in future posts)


44.Students shall be expected to seek audience with English Language/Literature tutors to have the type of summary chosen. It is important therefore that mentors and English Language tutors get to know the summary types and activities listed as types A,B and C. These are to be found under the students’ section of the Eduguide.


45. In the second week of the cycle mentors shall ensure that the students have their summaries marked by English Language/Literature tutors.They should  also have these scores transferred for their working papers.


46.Mentors are also expected to ensure that their wards prepare well for periods of exhortation during   daily school assemblies. It is expected that the Vice-Principal Admin shall comment on student’s performance daily on public exhortations and  mentors linked to such students shall be named, praised or called to order for their students' oral deliveries.


47.Students who submit their summaries early are to be encouraged to read more novels for pleasure by mentors, the Academic Group and librarians. Students shall be encouraged with bonus marks where considered necessary by their mentors. Where a student fast-tracks or fast-forward all his/her possible submission dates for a term such student shall definitely be given bonus marks by the mentor in charge.


48.It is to be noted that senior students usually prefer novels from Bookends at 5th Avenue and that there are approved library rules for the operation and management of this. Mentors shall please ensure that they are aware of these rules.


49.Penalties for late submission or non-submission shall be the same as for assignments.


BEHAVIORAL CHECKS (FRIDAYS)


50.The areas of focus for behavioral checks are:


(a)Regularity    (b)    Punctuality     (c)      Appearance  (d)   Participation in Break Activities


(e) Oral English Expressions (Or use of Pidgin English).


51.Mentors have limited work or decisions to make on these. Most of the statistics in this section  shall normally be extracted  from Students Admin Records or from scores provided by Admin officials in charge of break periods. Mentors however might disagree with certain scores provided under Appearance and Oral English Expressions and discuss their opinions with the Vice Principal Admin before modifying the scores provided. If ,however, the Admin Department insists on its scores mentors must refrain from.


52..Each of the factors under behavioral checks has a maximum score of 20  and mentors have the simplest job of just adding each score to get the behavioral score  for the week.


53.In addition to this, they shall be expected to speak to students on regularity and punctuality as guidance counselors for these two shall always attract the attention and punishment by Management each week.


54.A student who makes an overall pass grade on behavior but failed woefully on punctuality should  have the matter either attended to publicly at the assembly or by the Director at 5th Avenue. The job of the mentors shall therefore be to ultimately reduce the numbers of wards who might become caught in the vicious web of not being punctual to school always.


MATHS / ENGLISH CLINIC STUDY / EXAMINATION / JAMB TECHNIQUES AND SEMINARS / MOTIVATIONAL DISCUSSIONS & FINISHING TECHNIQUES / NOTAZINE WORK / GP EXERCISES.


55.Write-ups on these are being posted on our websites for use of mentors.


CLASSROOM TOOLS AVAILABLE FOR MENTORS / STAFF FOR USE OR FOR REFERENCE


56.Mentors are advised to read or get to know how to use the following tools for their work in the school. They must always remember that the time fixed for checks are usually late in the day and are not the best of time for effective brain or memory work by them or their students. It is also important that clinics and checks are held / conducted in an atmosphere of friendliness that shall make students thankful for what our mentors specifically and the schools generally are doing for them


a.Director’s Overall Review Questions Covering Academic Related as Non- Academic modes in


  the school.


b.Students Projects – Summary of how to conduct researches.


c. Review Tests for Red Note Scheme Part 1 and 2.


d. The Notebook integrity Project.


e. Students’ Attitude Checklist.


f. Students’ Problem Inventory for SS 1-3 classes.


g. How to conduct research work for Students' Projects (SS1 –SS3 only).


h. Techniques of Writing.


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19 March 2013

LIBRARY RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR REFERENCE AND USE BY NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS (2)





VOCABULARY IMPROVEMENT,NOVELS SUMMARY SCHEME AND RELATED RULES FOR OPERATION

 PREAMBLE

 WHAT IS A NOVEL SUMMARY SCHEME?

 1. Simply put, it means lending novels to students from the school library for reading,  summarization and submission for marking. The major objective is to improve students’ usage of English Language by acclimatization with the written word and subsequent widening of their vocabulary. There are many formats for achieving these and they shall be made available in similar write-ups which are coming up after this.

 2. However, the aim of this write-up is to specify library-related rules for operating the novel summarization schemes in a situation where a school has the library and willingness to operate such a program..The write-up should be read vis-à-vis another write-up titled LIBRARY RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR REFERENCE AND USE BY NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS (1).

 3. In using the rules below please note that they relate more to the circumstances at Mason College Festac. Each school should therefore modify them according to its local or special circumstances once it takes a decision to start the Novels scheme.

 HOW TO OPERATE A NOVEL SUMMARY SCHEME

 4. We suggest a novel summary scheme  to be operated  in two phases. The first phase shall include NEW AND POPULAR  novels  recommended by the school for purchase by students during the 1st and 2nd terms. The objective shall be to encourage students build up personal libraries in addition to novels collectible from the school library under the second phase The first phase made up mainly of new novels shall be subjected to an overall test during the mid-term examination of the 3rd term and shall constitute part of the general paper examination (as in Mason College) for the year. The second phase shall be operated as indicated in subsequent paragraphs below.

 JS 1- SS2 (3 TERMS)+ SS3(1ST TERM ONLY)

 5. Collection of novels shall take place once every fortnight (probably on Fridays)

 6. Novels shall be returned within two weeks with summaries in the FORMAT indicated by school management. The formats acceptable to the school (see more notes on formats in paragraph 1 above) shall be indicated in a subsequent write-up to this.

 7. Students shall be allowed to take additional novels for personal reading if requested by them (subject to a limit of one at a time) but all novels collected at any time shall be returnable to the library within a fortnight as indicated above. All such additional novels, on return, shall have their statuses renewed if requested

 8. The school’s Academic Group shall be present at each collection exercise to assist librarians and students

9.  It shall be the responsibility of the Academic Group to keep a ledger of books collected by each student to prevent repeated  collection of the same novel or non-collection by some lazy students. If any student by chance escapes due observation by the Academic Group and knowingly engages in repeated collections or non-collection such shall be punished in accordance with the school’s list of academic offenses.

 10. Only SS 1 to SS3 students shall be allowed to collect movie VHS, CDs or DVDs in lieu of novels. Such can be collected from the internal or external library of the school.An example of an external library is The academic-related content of the movie shall, however, be approved by the Academic Group if it can. If not references shall be made to the Director for approval. Librarians shall be expected to extract a list of educational   movies available at the external library so that students can make their choices from the library within the school premises. Librarians shall also review this list at the beginning of each term.

 11. Non-collection of novels by students are offenses under the school’s (Mason College) academic offenses schedule and shall be punishable as stated therein. This shall be pointed out to students from time to time. It shall however be the duty of the Academic Group as well as that of the Librarians to monitor students who have not collected novels. They should also ensure that this is done not later than the Tuesday following the Friday scheduled for collection.

 12. No JSS student shall be allowed to take a book or a movie from the external library for the novel summary scheme. However, they shall be allowed to do so for pleasure-reading  purposes.

 SS3 STUDENTS(2ND/3RD TERMS) + AFTER GRADUATION OR AS ALUMNI


 13. During the second and third terms SS3 students shall be allowed to collect novels or movies from both libraries without submitting any summary work. They shall also be allowed to keep such assets for 3 days (movies) and 7 days (novels) respectively. Any additional novel or movie collected by any of them from the external library shall be paid for according to the terms of rentals or lateness as operated at that library. Collections from the external library shall be initiated through a note given by the Academic Group after express permission by Management.

 14. No library services shall be available, however, from 1st May of each year to SS3 students because of WAEC examinations. Such services shall not be available either after the NECO examinations in July. However they shall have the privilege of becoming automatic members of the external library without paying any registration fees as might be demanded. But they shall pay for  services like other public members of that library

DUTIES OF LIBRARIANS

 15. It shall be the duty of Librarians to secure the assets and keep the library neat and tidy at all times. It shall also be their responsibility to prevent or  put in check any form of noise, disturbance or distraction in the library They are permitted to raise appropriate penalties on students or staff members for any misdemeanor in the library. However on any issue leading to penalties to be raised on staff members such shall first be raised to  Management for confirmation through the official daily work done books.

MOVEMENT OF LIBRARY ASSETS

 16. All students and staff members are allowed to make reference to text books in the library only. They are not allowed to take text books away except if specially permitted by management through the Academic Group.

 17. Staff   members whose appointments have been confirmed by management are allowed to take a movie or a novel at the school or external library for a maximum 3 days for a movie and 7 days for a novel after which they shall be charged for late return on  any asset collected from the external library like other members of the public

 OTHER REGULATIONS

 18. The school libraries have more detailed sets of rules and regulations for reference purposes However, additional rules and regulations shall be made known to students and staff members through the usual channels such as this.

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 LIBRARY RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR REFERENCE AND USE BY NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS (1)

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