Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Daily Warm up Mrs. Kelly is having a difficult time getting her 7th grade math students to complete their daily warm ups. During warm up time, Mrs. Kelly is taking attendance and checking for homework completion so she cannot monitor the students while they are completing the warm up. At the end of the week, she collects the warm up sheet for a grade; however, she notices that the students are just simply writing the answer down and not showing their work. How can she make sure the students are actually completing the warm up and not just writing the answer down when she goes over it? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I have two suggestions, one they could complete the daily warm-up each morning and if they are unable to finish it they will have the opportunity to finish it the next day. Then students will turn in their journals each day to ensure validity of their answers. On Friday, provide them a few extra minutes to work while you walk around and just put a simple check to see who has shown work and completed all of the problems. Then, go over the answers as a class for the whole week. This would ensure that they showed their work and that completed the problem. You could also check daily if time allows. My other suggestion is for them to switch from pencil to pen. That way when you grade their papers you can tell that their original work is in pencil. Only pens would be allowed during the review. I hope this is helpful!                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: I like your idea of switching from pencil to pen. Thank you for the suggestion. Rated On: October 18, 2014 6:18 pm Rated By: ZugySe