Mrs. Ramus Current Events

Sue Ramus, Academic Support Coordinator:

I am a graduate of Concordia University with a B.A. in Elementary Education, am certified to teach gr. K-9 and have a Library Media Endorsement to my teaching license. 

After serving in the role as St. John Fisher Library Media Specialist for many years, I have now transitioned into the newly established position of part-time Academic Support Coordinator.   This position was created in keeping with the Mission Statement of St. John Fisher to develop the whole child by establishing a system for early identification, referral and on-going follow-up for identified students for proper academic progress as outlined in our recent School Improvement Action Plan.  It is my belief that with early intervention, proper screening and diagnostics, all students can learn by providing high-quality instruction matched to individual student learning needs.  

My hobbies include spending family time with my family (both married daughters are SJF alums!), spoiling our first grandson (a future SJF kindergartner!), reading and working on the ever-elusive golf game!

Mrs. Ramus Current Events: 

From your Academic Support Coordinator - Study Skills Tip #1

Where does time go?  For many children, time is elastic…in other words, it may pass in a blur or seem to stretch into a summer’s worth of adventures.  Developing the ability to estimate the tasks to be accomplished and the time it will take to do them is an important skill for children to learn and use throughout their lives.  Before we can budget our time for our tasks, we need to know how we spend our time and on what activities.

Suggested activities to do at home:

• Have your child keep track of how they spend their Saturday and Sunday – hour by hour keeping track of every activity.  Then sit down with them to review how the time was spent.  Perhaps your child could write in a journal about what they learned from this exercise using a writing prompt such as “One thing I need to change about how I use my time is …”
• For math – have your child graph their time.  Help them calculate the average number of hours spent watching tv, computer, video games, etc.?  Challenge them to bring this number down.

Give your child a chance to think about how they use their time and how to make positive changes!