In Power Lab, we try to improve our efforts in reading by participating in a home reading program. If students return their practiced books, and are able to read them proficiently,the students are given the priviledge of reading to Raleigh, the therapy dog. Raleigh visits us each week.
As a group we discussed the challenges of motivating students. Students often do not realize the influence effort can have on achievement. The challenges came in getting the students to want to do their best. We implemented different strategies in our classroom. We also discussed some ideas for school wide recognition for effort and achievement. These included having an assembly to recognize honor roll students. We could invite a guest to hand out certificates (high school football player, cheerleader, band member,etc.). We also talked about a student of the week bulletin board for primary and intermediate students. Rubistar is a great resource for creating rubrics for students. It shows expectations and clearly defines what a student's effort will achieve: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ G. Bolling, L. Bolling, Fore, V. Mullins, Gibson, Harvey, McCall, Newlun
I have a classroom that has been a challenge for me in the behavior area. I started letting the students set behavior goals each week. They receive a certain number of points each day based on their behavior. They strive to reach that point goal by the end of the week. This has worked with some students. Near the end of the week they would be adding their points to see what they needed to do to meet their goal. However, some students were not affected by the goals. I'm still finding those students to be a challenge.
In Power Lab, we try to improve our efforts in reading by participating in a home reading program. If students return their practiced books, and are able to read them proficiently,the students are given the priviledge of reading to Raleigh, the therapy dog. Raleigh visits us each week.
ReplyDeleteAs a group we discussed the challenges of motivating students. Students often do not realize the influence effort can have on achievement. The challenges came in getting the students to want to do their best. We implemented different strategies in our classroom.
ReplyDeleteWe also discussed some ideas for school wide recognition for effort and achievement. These included having an assembly to recognize honor roll students. We could invite a guest to hand out certificates (high school football player, cheerleader, band member,etc.). We also talked about a student of the week bulletin board for primary and intermediate students.
Rubistar is a great resource for
creating rubrics for students. It shows expectations and
clearly defines what a student's effort will achieve:
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
G. Bolling, L. Bolling, Fore, V. Mullins, Gibson, Harvey, McCall, Newlun
I have a classroom that has been a challenge for me in the behavior area. I started letting the students set behavior goals each week. They receive a certain number of points each day based on their behavior. They strive to reach that point goal by the end of the week. This has worked with some students. Near the end of the week they would be adding their points to see what they needed to do to meet their goal. However, some students were not affected by the goals. I'm still finding those students to be a challenge.
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