What is the key to a successful TRISMS co-op?
• PLAN – Allow time to meet together and get down on paper what you are going to do for the complete year of co-op. • Cooperation, everyone helps out in some way. • Set a standard for punctuality, classroom decorum, personal responsibility and consequences. • Everyone becomes familiar with their TRISMS text, the web site Homework Helps and resources learning how to work with TRISMS.Join the TRISMS e-loop. • Stay positive. When school starts don’t get discouraged. If this is the first year to use TRISMS your student and you will learn a new way to study and think. It sometimes takes a student a full semester to get the hang of learning how to find research material, mentally process it, draw their own conclusions and communicate them verbally or in writing. • Flexibility. You may have to change your teaching plans mid-year. Adjust to make your students and teachers successful.
