My son has just recently started his A Levels at an excellent 6th form college in Huddersfield.
He says he's getting all his homework done at college in his free periods. The college says he needs to be doing at least 16 hours of 'homework' a week - which he's clearly not doing at the moment.
Is it likely that the work will pile on substantially this month or should he be doing way more study around the subjects, outside of school, off his own bat.
He doesn't see the need to be doing any additional study, despite the fact that he has actual AS level exams just after Xmas in chemistry, and claims nobody else is doing anything more than the bare minimum.
Any suggestions from either students or teachers on getting him to realise that the work really needs doing if he wants to stand any chance of getting good grades. He's at an age where I don't think 'no Xbox/TV/computer if you don't do your homework' will work. I don't want an atmosphere of resentment and would rather treat him as an adult, but am at a loss as to how to get him motivated.
My own A level experience was mixed... I did well in one subject and bolloxed the other 3. Which was down to combination of poor teaching and a lack of 'get up and go' on my part. So I'm hoping he won't go down the same route I did.
Or am I worrying too much?
BTW... He got a mixed bag in his GCSEs, with some excellent results in subjects he was interested in and worked at, and then some really dismal results in subjects he lost interest in. Is history going to repeat itself?
He says he's getting all his homework done at college in his free periods. The college says he needs to be doing at least 16 hours of 'homework' a week - which he's clearly not doing at the moment.
Is it likely that the work will pile on substantially this month or should he be doing way more study around the subjects, outside of school, off his own bat.
He doesn't see the need to be doing any additional study, despite the fact that he has actual AS level exams just after Xmas in chemistry, and claims nobody else is doing anything more than the bare minimum.
Any suggestions from either students or teachers on getting him to realise that the work really needs doing if he wants to stand any chance of getting good grades. He's at an age where I don't think 'no Xbox/TV/computer if you don't do your homework' will work. I don't want an atmosphere of resentment and would rather treat him as an adult, but am at a loss as to how to get him motivated.
My own A level experience was mixed... I did well in one subject and bolloxed the other 3. Which was down to combination of poor teaching and a lack of 'get up and go' on my part. So I'm hoping he won't go down the same route I did.
Or am I worrying too much?
BTW... He got a mixed bag in his GCSEs, with some excellent results in subjects he was interested in and worked at, and then some really dismal results in subjects he lost interest in. Is history going to repeat itself?