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zesty_steig

Who Me? Discipline Problems?

Oct 21, 2010 11:14

Today there were some good things today and some really NOT good things. Let's just say that I was stuck with both halves of the 6th grade class for TWO periods in a row and that from the start I made them write sentences -my first mistake was punishing them and the second was making them write far too many- and at the break I didn't let them ( Read more... )

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teen appeal anonymous October 21 2010, 05:14:37 UTC

It is difficult to know what to advise because the culture of the school determines a lot, but here are some things I'd try if the culture of the school allows ( ... )

Re: teen appeal zesty_steig October 21 2010, 10:42:18 UTC

Thanks for the advice. These are great ideas. I've heard some of them before and have (tried) to do some of them already. At the start of the year we came up with "Classroom Expectations" but I never finished making a visual poster for reminders. I also promised that if they are good I'd reward them -but I never picked a proper reward system for them -like marbles in a jar, stickers on a poster (I have many stickers and can get poster paper from the store). I also never thought I'd have a problem with discipline ( ... )

depends on the school anonymous October 25 2010, 07:16:23 UTC

I don't know what your school will allow as far as what to display, but I've got homework completion on a chart, behavior on a chart, reading points earned in a computer comprehension program called AR. We call this our "data wall". It is a pretty big buzz term going around nowadays in education. Some teachers post their attendance, some who have multiple periods of the same class will have classes compete against each other (like on test scores and such).

Something else that works well is a "caught being good" type of ticket. You hand it to students when they've been caught displaying the kind of behavior you're looking for and you choose to recognize it on the spot so other students are motivated as well.

Good luck with the charts. You may also look into the website "homeworkopoly.com" We play it every week (when I've got the time) to reward students that got 100% of their homework done for my class that week.