Positive examples from case study 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3. And ways to revise case study 3.4.
3.1
- Post a chart of daily points earned and possible and have student keep one themselves.
- List daily activities on the chalkboard before each class.
- Set daily time for assignments.
- Circulate around the room while students work.
- Keep a list of those who had participate and call on those who haven’t.
- Keep students responsible for missed work when absent. Have them look up the assignments.
- Have weekly assignments handed back on Fridays.
3.2
- Grade sheets with section, homework grades, test grades, pop quiz scores, and a notebook score. And have student figure their own grades to see if they match yours.
- In the notebook have them keep, grade sheet, tests, class notes.
- Give notebooks a grade like a test.
- Monitor the notebooks periodically to see if the students are keeping them.
- Give students warm up activities.
- Collect homework at the beginning of class.
- Explain problems that many students missed so that they can form more understanding
3.3
- Use handouts describing all the requirements for assigned topics.
- Show many examples of what you expect to get.
- Go over project guidelines as a class.
- Have students save work to more than one spot.
- Give examples of citations of many mediums, such as web sites and books.
- Provide a personal example of power point show.
- Provide a schedule of the times when they will be allowed to work on projects in class.
- Have a sign up sheet for the use of the computers in the classroom.
Have meetings with students checking up on their progress so that you can make comments and make sure they are progressing. - Provide a checklist of all required materials for projects.
- Provide a checklist of how the projects will be evaluated.
3.4
- Provide handout of what is specifically to be in the notebooks.
- Show an example of a good notebook.
- Check notebooks periodically to check progress.
- Provide a rubric of how the notebooks will be graded and how much they weigh into the grades.
- Circulate around the room so that you can help students who need help, because some will never ask for help.
- Post weekly assignments and hold students accountable for work that they missed while being absent.
- Have a grade sheet to be kept in notebooks, with places to record, homework grades, test grades, pop quiz scores, and notebook scores.
- Have students calculate their own grades to compare them with yours.
- Explain problems miss by many of the students to make sure that they understand them.
