Trying to think of ideas for improving the number of students who turn in homework assignments. What are your thoughts? This is going to be a school wide item so shoot ideas....rewards or punishments are welcomed and lets be realistic here.
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Have it be a bigger % of their grade. No rewards or special offerings IMO...caring about their future should be enough. My fiance is an elementary teacher in an urban school system, very sad how 10% of a first grade class hands in HW. I remember being excited to get HW at that age.
Coming from a student: If you force a student to do hw he/she will either go against the system and drop all the way to the bottom or just have to do good. I would personally (sounds kind of shady, I'd hate if my teacher did this) and contact each and everyone's parents and let them know up dates. We have a thing called "school loop" where our parents can check out our grades. When you get parents involved any child in the right mind should listen, if they don't detention, stay after school till they finish. Reward wise maybe give the ones who do good a few "extra" rights? of campus lunch? good report to parents? good report to future college or high school? just some advice.
It is already enough points to fail them. We could kick them out of school for academic noncompliance, but the point of our school is to help students succeed. So we are looking for ways to get them to want to turn in work.
One idea is having a separate cafeteria area for those who have all work in and no F's without referrals. In this space they can use all electronics.
One idea is having a separate cafeteria area for those who have all work in and no F's without referrals. In this space they can use all electronics.
, time punishments are worse
Thought is to force them to stay after if they do not do their assignments. I send out biweekly progress reports by email. So you would already hate me. lol
I had a great history teacher once who had a great technique for getting us students to do and remember the work. We had homework every night. 20-30 questions. The following day we would play a classroom version of family fued with two teams facing off, buzzers and, score keepers. The questions pertained to the previous nights work. The whole class really got into it and, you definately did not want to be the one who didn't know the answer.
start with a card with a 5x6 grid, 30 boxes. Every week or Homework assignment they turn in they get a gold star. When they get thirty then get to choose from the prize bin or cheap toys which they may keep in their desk and not get confiscated 
. Worked when i was in school
. Worked when i was in schoolwell honestly the best way ive been taught to do h.w is to give out the homework and say there will be a open book test on it the following day, then follow through but the only open book material they use is the homework that they actually wrote out by hand, my teacher used to print out all the questions and have room for our answers and thats what your h.w would be written on you get homework marks there and quiz marks 