Teacher asking for help
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I'm in my last year if highschool (grade 12). I hate doing homework. I teeth just grind together everytime I have to do it. But I just do it because it needs to be done, you must have discipline. Your students don't hand in homework most likely because they are lazzy and need discipline. Think of what it will be like in university? A lot more work.
At my school we have what's called "A homework room". This is everday from 3pm to 4pm. I don't usually stay but today I did. In this room, which in the day is just a classroom students work on their homework. There are usually two teachers to help. It's a working enviroment so you get stuff done.
I go to a private highschool. My friend goes to public. I believe it's the private system that made me have discipline. To quote South Park: Your students "rack discipline".
At my school we have what's called "A homework room". This is everday from 3pm to 4pm. I don't usually stay but today I did. In this room, which in the day is just a classroom students work on their homework. There are usually two teachers to help. It's a working enviroment so you get stuff done.
I go to a private highschool. My friend goes to public. I believe it's the private system that made me have discipline. To quote South Park: Your students "rack discipline".
Keep the ideas coming... Lets focus on ideas and not what the kids should do. I am a teacher, I went to high school and have been in it for another 5 years now. I know the importance and my kids are not reading this. I am looking for ideas that I might have missed or other teachers might not think of. Keep the ideas coming in.
I had a class with assigned reading each night, the next day at the beginning of class there was a small quiz to take to prove you had done the reading. the crux was he asked after the quiz who hadn't done the reading and you had to raise your hand and then stand and explain why you hadn't done it, if you didn't raise your had and explain there was trouble to be had. I only ever missed the reading once and it really helped me take responsibility for doing my own work under my own power.
I can't really think of any way to help a student do their homework. It's basically impossible to take a kid who hasn't done their homework for years, and start making them do their homework.
I have always done my homework, every bit of it as well, because it's not exactly effecting my grade if I don't, I just choose that I like the learn.
There's a certain age where students establish a concrete idea about homework as well. They either do it or they don't. If you try and reward a high-school student to do their homework, 9/10 times it won't last more than a week.
I have always done my homework, every bit of it as well, because it's not exactly effecting my grade if I don't, I just choose that I like the learn.
There's a certain age where students establish a concrete idea about homework as well. They either do it or they don't. If you try and reward a high-school student to do their homework, 9/10 times it won't last more than a week.
I remember we had something called got books in highschool which was 30 minutes where we were supposed to read but most everyone just did homework, I think if you set aside 30 minutes of the day for homework assignments that it could be beneficial, although on the other hand many students may not do the homework at home and then not have enough time to finish the homework. I also like the idea of an optional hour homework session with a teacher after school, but many kids in highschool dont care enough to go, so that may not work either but would help some.
The only way to get 100% HW turn in rates are by not giving HW, sad but true.
Also, I always used an agenda to organize hw assignments, try mandating that they log in their homework assignments into an agenda of some sort, many kids just forget.
Lastly, keep homework within a reasonable amount of problems. Most kids are not going to spend more than an hour on homework, and thats with all the classes combined, so coordinate with the other teachers to keep it in an achievable amount, you dont want kids getting a feeling of learned helplessness because they have to spend 4 hours a day on homework.
The only way to get 100% HW turn in rates are by not giving HW, sad but true.
Also, I always used an agenda to organize hw assignments, try mandating that they log in their homework assignments into an agenda of some sort, many kids just forget.
Lastly, keep homework within a reasonable amount of problems. Most kids are not going to spend more than an hour on homework, and thats with all the classes combined, so coordinate with the other teachers to keep it in an achievable amount, you dont want kids getting a feeling of learned helplessness because they have to spend 4 hours a day on homework.
honestly in my experience... my prof's usually use the homework questions as the test questions... maybe changing some numbers (in math for ex) so by doing the homework its pretty much doing a mock test...
Also as mentioned above i think, making the homework grade worth enough of the overall grade percentage that neglecting it isnt an option to not pass..
the only other thing that made me do homework religiously was back in calc 1 my prof gave 30 points extra credit on the lowest test grade for turning in ALL homework assignments the day of the final... but if any were missing not attempted ect no points were given... within reason
hope this helps
Also as mentioned above i think, making the homework grade worth enough of the overall grade percentage that neglecting it isnt an option to not pass..
the only other thing that made me do homework religiously was back in calc 1 my prof gave 30 points extra credit on the lowest test grade for turning in ALL homework assignments the day of the final... but if any were missing not attempted ect no points were given... within reason
hope this helps
Also, I remember a teacher I had, it was in German class; I had her for a total of 3 years and she NEVER gave out homework. I asked her why, because practicing a new language obviously requires homework (just as any other class), and she simply said "Because nobody in the class will ever do it."
After 3 years I feel like I've learned nothing. My whole family is German and I can barely communicate with them. It's pretty ridiculous.
However; my most recent History teacher assigned homework every night and it was simply defining and (explaining why they were important) anywhere from around 7-15 vocabulary words from each section. He allowed us to use the homework on the tests.
Ended up with everyone doing their homework and doing well on the tests. I wouldn't do this as a highschool teacher. He just seems as if he wanted to look good by average class grades. BUT everyone did do their homework.
After 3 years I feel like I've learned nothing. My whole family is German and I can barely communicate with them. It's pretty ridiculous.
However; my most recent History teacher assigned homework every night and it was simply defining and (explaining why they were important) anywhere from around 7-15 vocabulary words from each section. He allowed us to use the homework on the tests.
Ended up with everyone doing their homework and doing well on the tests. I wouldn't do this as a highschool teacher. He just seems as if he wanted to look good by average class grades. BUT everyone did do their homework.
mike dunagan;4684113; said:
Those who are academically falling behind:
1. Can't join sports.
2. Must go to after school tutoring until their grades are back up.
(different class rooms different subjects, this is where a good teacher would have to come in and stay after school.) Teachers can help other students who need help to so kind of like "tutoring".
3. Monthly PHONE CALL HOMES/UPDATES
If the refuse to show up after school, pull them out 5 min before the last period ends. Unless that is they have a valid excuse of course. Basically you need to tell the kids to pull their head out of their *** cause they are only screwing up their own lives. Tell them India has more honor students then we have students in general.
