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Homework not presented
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Lucia13
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Homework not presented
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Hello everyone,
With not so many years of experience,there are some situations that I am unable to solve in teaching yet...
What to do when the student doesn �t present the homework (no matter what the excuse)?
Just can �t find the best solution to this problem!
Hope someone could help,
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27 Jun 2011
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maryse pey�
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is this the 1st time ? Is this student used to the fact ? Did his excuse sound true ? Is he a serious student or a lazy one ?
You must take in account all these elements. If the student is usually serious, this non presentation may be a real "incident". So give him a 2nd chance telling him to present the homework the day after and correct it (if it is an exercise you have planned to correct in class) when you have got the missing work.
If he is a lazy student give him a 0 AND a 2nd homework for the day after. You will mark both and then erase the 0 only if he has given you the works done.
If he is a lazy student not giving you what you asked, not only you will keep the 0 but you will take him away 5 points from his average mark of the term.
Hope it will help you. And remember the students are able to do that only to see how far they can "play" with your patience. Don �t shout, it is useless AND stay firm about your final decision. |
27 Jun 2011
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Hrym
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Maybe first you should ask him/her about the reason and investigate a little more; sometimes personal problems directly have influence in their work; so maybe a good option could be to investigate a little bit his/her personal background and then act. The solutions that my collegues in here give you are also an option if the boy/girl is repeating this,day after day, with no reason at all.But what i have already learn about this problem is that is better to find a way to make him/her change and then give a simbolic prize than punish.
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27 Jun 2011
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ueslteacher
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I have a student who chronically skips homework. Once or twice I talked to him one on one (especially after his low performance on a test) and would tell him that he has got really great memory and I can see that learning English comes easy for him, but because he often doesn �t do homework, some things especially grammar points just don �t get the chance to set up in his mind and then the result is his failed test or a mark that is not what he expected. I would say: I can see the great potential in you and that you could excel in English with just a small effort on your part, because things that are easy for you are not as easy for others and they work really hard to have what comes naturally for you.... That inspired him and sometimes the next time he would come to class boastfully telling me:"I did my homework for today" But it �s also true it �s hard for such students to be persistent... Sophia
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27 Jun 2011
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dawnmain
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I find if I threaten to phone the parents thats sufficient.
I have had to phone parents on a couple of occasions, usually they are not aware of any problem and are happy to be informed.
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27 Jun 2011
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manonski (f)
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That is why here some schools are not giving homework anymore. They only give study.
I think Mariethe is giving you a good tip but I would not wait for 5 undone homework before contacting the parents. My patience would run out after 3 times.
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27 Jun 2011
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ueslteacher
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What �s study vs. homework anyway? Could you explain, Manon, please? Sophia |
28 Jun 2011
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manonski (f)
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Hi Sophia,
Homework means that the student has to hand in some kind of filled in/written activity the next class to the teacher.
Study is, for example, learning a list of vocabulary words, reading a text.
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28 Jun 2011
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ueslteacher
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The thing is, where I come from written or oral assignments given to students to work on at home are called HOMEWORK and are despised anyways. Sophia |
28 Jun 2011
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s.lefevre
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I personnaly think that students have too much homework nowadays. Each teacher thinks about his subject and how to emprove it, but doesn �t think about the other subjects where the student gets also lots of homework. I know it �s necessary but perhaps it would be possible to give less homework. For instance once a week and not pages and pages. Students stay at school already 5 hours or more and than they come home and have to sit down and do more two or three hours of homework. I think you could give them books to read or even films or tV series to watch and you could discuss them in class. You could divede the class in small groups and they could elaborate questions about the book or the film. You give the ones who participate extra points which can improve the final mark. |
28 Jun 2011
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