Post: PT Scoreboard game and homework...
Posted by NC Power Teacher on 9/03/08
Okay, this is only my opinion, so take it or leave it, up to
you:
I never assign more homework with the Scoreboard game.
I have found that the kids will resent it. What I do is
assign homework based on what I think they will need to do
to stay where we need to be in the event they do not focus
on our class that day.
If they lose they only get the amount of homework they were
going to get anyway. If they win the get less homework, or
no homework. Doing it this way I have yet to have a parent
complain, no administrators complain about using homework as
punishment, and the kids feel the system is a just one.
With this approach I give them the opportunity to choose
what we play for each day- homework, sitting wherever they
want, or free time. They almost always choose homework,
usually three days out of five so far. Further when we are
playing for homework I am finding that some of the kids who
were typically troublemakers in last year's classes become
some of my most diligent workers in class, and are fast to
redirect their classmates back on task. They don't want the
homework, but they enjoy the fact that they can control
whether they have it or not.
Again, just my opinion.
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