Very suprised

Last week, I tried something that was suggested to me by both The NTI and Kevin Ward of CEFGA during my classes last summer. I assigned jobs to each student during my lab assignments. I figured, it could'nt hurt to try. I was asolutely amazed at what transpired. I assigned student to various positions based upon the test and assignment grades up to this point. Of course, the most serious students attained the higher positions early on. However, I have one student in particular, whom I believe to be very intelligent, but lacks focus academically. He was assigned a crew foreman position. I was shocked that day and have remained impressed, at not only his transformation in maturity, but the classes as a whole. First of all they stayed on task, no-one attempted to hide or walk off. They are ruthless in their competetiveness to outperform their opposing crews. Now they are attacking their classwork to compete for the more prestigious jobs such as the Job Site Superintendant. And the current holders of the aforementioned position is conducting class as a Job site meeting. They are writing others up for being late talking during class and so forth. We have since discussed the installation of a timeclock. Real genious!