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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Classroom Activity
This semester I assigned projects dealing with the Gun violence in the United States the students had to do a research paper, Visual aid poster or Powerpoint was also needed with the paper. Also I assigned for reqirement a Word citited page. Some of my students enjoyed the work and research and gained good knowledege from stats and the UCR - uniform crime report. The displayed their information and verbally submitted their projects to the class. On the other hand I had students who didn't try or make a good effort towards their projects. I reward the students who took their time with gifts like notebooks, pens, jumpdrives and highlighters. This caused the students who received a bad grade to get an attitude with me and the other students. I was very surprised with the response. I'm not sure if I would do this again.
Maybe the idea was sound, but the extent of the reward was too high. I have been bringing in large bags of starburst singles. This getts the class involved,I throw out singles throughout the class for participation, like correct answers ect. This is not expensive and all the students want one. All they have to do is participate.
ReplyDeleteKen
I have done something similar Vincent and got the same results. It seems like the "bad grade" students respond after seeing the prizes with attitude and by saying "if I had known I would have done better or actually tried..."
ReplyDeleteMaybe letting them know before might inspire different results...maybe even part of the rubric