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I know a lot of you out there are in high school or recently graduated so I'd like your input. I teach 7th grade math and this year seems to have a pretty sorry group of kids as far as effort and ability goes. The problem is they are not doing their homework and I would like to know what rewards or punishments had the greatest effect on you to get you to do your homework.
 
Call their parents or fail them. Bottom line is right now these grades don't really affect them that much.
 
For me, it's all about motivation and my competetive nature. But it seems like each year kids get lazier and lazier, and loses their motivation for doing homework.

--GiLtY
 
give pop quizes on the homework material and if a kid get all the questions he automatically gets like 5 or 10% add to a test score, if he gets enough then he wouldnt even have to take the test. the exact details is up to you but in genreal this strategy worked well when i was school.
 
Originally posted by: Tabb
Call their parents or fail them. Bottom line is right now these grades don't really affect them that much.
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I would have to agree with that. Give them a nice phone home or fail them. There is nothing more you can do. They make their own decisions and if they choose not to do the work, their grade will reflect upon that.
 
Maybe you should give them smaller amounts of homework at first. If this isn't an honors class you should just you should give them small doses at a time. Reward them if they finish also. So if a student sees only 10 problems AND they get a Tootsie Pop (tm) if they finish it, then they'll do it. And slowly but surely they'll learn something and never know it. Also make sure you update them daily of their grades. Make sure you tell them (show them) that their grades are heavily impacted when they skip out on assignments.
 
Originally posted by: Medellon
I know a lot of you out there are in high school or recently graduated so I'd like your input. I teach 7th grade math and this year seems to have a pretty sorry group of kids as far as effort and ability goes. The problem is they are not doing their homework and I would like to know what rewards or punishments had the greatest effect on you to get you to do your homework.
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dont' have too much per night, after a while i would loose intrest as it became tedious, have a few of each problem type, not like 20/30 🙁

offer optional problems that were worth bonus points, only AFTER regular stuff is done, peticularly hard ones, but if they solved it you know they understand the material

go over homework for the first 10 minutes of class, answering any questions that may have arisen due to the previous nights assignment

edit - another good idea mentioned: do homework for mon, tues, wed, thurs and you get no homework over the weekend or something!
 
i dunno i was always taught to do it by my parents, so nothing the teachers did really had that big of an effect.... i dunno, maybe show them why the stuff they're learning is important? like show them how matrix algebra is used in image manipulation.... that sort of stuff always got me interested...
 
What Ameesh said - make an incentive out of tests. Configure the grading so that if they get such-and-such grade over the entire semester, they get to drop one test, or they don't have to take the final. Those types of classes always encourage me to keep tabs on my grade and try extra hard.
 
Don't forward the problems of the American education system by making people work for incentives. Although it is a good preparation for the rest of their lives.
 
Homework is a complete waste of time. I'm paying thousands a year to go to college and I don't do my homework in most classes. The only time i do homework is if it's worth 20% or more of the final grade, and even then i don't really do it. I just do enough to get most of the points.

If you can learn the material without doing countless redundant problems, then there's no need to waste your time on homework.

Just my opinion, I REALLY hate homework. 🙂
 
i'm a student,
and I think, its really interest that can get the student to get the homework or task done.
If there is anyway a lecturer can make a subject so interesting and make then want to participate and know more.

then without even forcing that they will do homework.
It is a very difficult task to do. But its not impossible. I've taken a class where History didn't seem boring to me at one time because the lecturer made the whole subject so interesting and exciting. Almost like watching a movie series 😉
 
Don't just assign repetitive tasks. 50 of the same type of problem is a waste of time.
When I was in school, there was nothing you could do to motivate me to do homework. I felt that it was a waste of my time then, and I feel the same way now.
 
They get homework at most 3 times a week and usually not on Friday. They get between 10-15 problems and it should never take more than 30 minutes per night. It usually only takes between 15-20 minutes. I will be calling parents but want to try some other methods because where I teach, the parents are almost as bad as the kids and their education level is pretty low.
 
in my 7th grade class, my teacher did it so that if you got 5s on all of the week's homework, you'd get a ticket. Every so often, he'd take all the tickets, put them in a jar, and draw so many of them for candy.

a 5 on the homework was fully completed/attempted + corrected work
 
If you collect homework - don't. Grade on completion alone. Eventually they'll catch on and one of them will start doing it and it'll get passed around and copied at lunch or summat, and then eventually more of them will start doing it so they can have more social time.
 
I'd say one of 3 options...

call/letter home

homework pass for those that do assignments regularly

go over homework at start of class and call on/embarass the kids you know arent doing their work

-doug
 
Just give tests hard enough to fail those who don't understand the material, and sooner or later they'll start to do what it takes to pass. If they don't, then fail them. That's what I hated about school up to Calc: I'd be assigned repetitive homework (something like 30 problems a night that were almost all the same), and I'd get it after the first one or two. It was just a giant waste of time. Unfortunately, college is re-introducing the mindnumbing homework routine.
 
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