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Case: Refusal to complete "EASY" Assignment I require my students to complete the topics being covered for the week in their agenda. I have numerous students who refuse to copy the information into their agenda. Therefore, they are failing my class because when I check them on Fridays, they do not have it written down. I do not want my students to fail because of an agenda. How do I get them to do it? or How can I justify them failing for that reason? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) If I understand correctly, you are simply asking students to copy a list of topics into their agendas each week and then giving them a zero because they haven't done so. If that is the case, I would re-evaluate the purpose of asking them to such a task. Are they writing it down just so they remember what is being talked about in class? Are they writing them down so that their parents know what you are covering? You may want to implement something called a notebook check instead. My ninth grader, in his literature class, is evaluated each week on the quality of work in his notebook, not simply on whether he has written something down or not. The notebook includes his personally written notes from lectures and discussions that take place each day, homework assignments that have been completed as assigned, a reading log, and various responses to the texts that he is reading. It also includes bathroom passes that he has used in the class throughout the week, as those are traded in for extra credit at the end of the nine weeks. The notebook is a great learning tool for him, and it helps to keep him organized. |
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