One of the biggest things that students face in a school that affects school work is the social life that goes with it. Once the social life goes to hell, so doesn’t the school work. I have a student in my class that just gave up because his parents just got divorced and they don’t want anything to do with him. I wish I could fix his social life, but unfortunately I can’t do that so I have been working with him one on one and trying to get him up with the rest of the class. He is steadily improving and I hope that since I am not there for the next three weeks he will do it on his own.
When the end of the quarter or period is coming to an end ask students to write down how they think that they are doing so that you know what they expect. Once you have that down you can go through them ands meet with students if necessary to try to get them to their goals. Don’t give it to them make them earn it. If they haven’t done it yet tell them that the grade might go up if they do it and hand it in. This will motivate the students as well. This is the kind of stuff that I have been doing in my classroom. I gave students a good amount of time to do my homework so that their grades can be boosted. I also have allowed students to make up quizzes and they are allowed to, but the make up quiz is harder than the original. Lastly, this chapter talks about students skipping school and to show students that teachers are human and that you can be wrong and should apologize. That is pretty much the only thing that I got from this chapter.
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