Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Students do not bring pencils and forget to return when I loan them. Our school policy (and district+state) requires that when students do not bring pencils, teachers are required to supply. In fact, in our state it's against the law NOT to supply a pencil in class if a pencil is needed to do the work. I am fine with this rule. However, I have couple of students who forget to bring pencils frequently and ask for a new one each time. They seem to lose them all the time. Do you have this problem? How do you deal with it? Any thoughts? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I had a teacher that had a classroom set of pencils just for borrowing. The catch was that the pencils had large plastic sunflowers and daisies scotch taped to them and they were placed in a vase on her desk. The boys were generally never interested in keeping them and anyone could earn different plastic flowers (roses/tulips)to decorate their pencils with as a positive behavior reward at the end of the week. This allowed the teacher to easily identify her pencils and to reward positive behavior all at the same time.                 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 using it to reward students as well Rated On: October 14, 2022 8:38 pm Rated By: TyNede