Sep

18

Students Who Don’t Perform or Complete Work in Class

Filed Under "At-risk" students, Behaviour Management, Special Education | Leave a Comment

1. Interact frequently with these students. They do soooooo better with the personal touch. Seat them close to you, stand near them, ask them questions, ask them their opinions. This will help reduce the chance of them drifting off into lah lah land. Some kids work better if they know you are interested in them.

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2. Assign buddies when doing class assignments-math buddies, English buddies, science buddies etc. Train the students to ask their buddy first if they have a question. If their buddy doesn’t know the answer, then it becomes a group question that the teacher will answer. This will prevent kids from just sitting there because they don’t know what’s going on, or don’t know how to do the work.

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3. Check for understanding by having the student explain “whatever” in their own words. Kids get to know they are accountable and pay more attention.

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4. Catch them being good. I can’t stress this enough!!! Reward them with praise whenever you see students doing what they are supposed to. “Oh good, you’ve got your books open and ready to go.” “Oh good, you’re asking your buddy a question.” “Oh good, you’ve finished three questions-you get the drift. It works like magic! I catch them being good, not being bad, and I feel so much better! Really. Try it.

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5. Have the work listed on the board with page numbers. When kids seem to be in neutral, ask them what are they supposed to be doing. Don’t ask them why they aren’t doing it.-waste of time. When they say they don’t know, point to the board. Soon they’ll be trained to look there.



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