Low Or No Work Completion

The student may:

• Have low energy and motivation
• Have low academic ability
• Appear lethargic or slow
• Assignments turned in incomplete
• Be sad or depressed
• Have home or environmental issues
• Become frequently frustrated and discouraged with work
• Have little home support and involvement
• Fail to study
• Dislike school
• little or no participation or interest
• Have poor organizational skills
• Give many excuses
• Fail to consistently follow expectations for work completion
• Little to no follow through
• Say they want to and will try more and start doing better, begin to improve, then quickly fall off again
• Talk a good talk about changing and doing better, but display no action
• Be more preoccupied with social interactions and circle
• Spend time with “bad crowd”
• Have trouble focusing and attending