Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Continuing Homework Struggles
In my last post I explained the things that I would be doing in order to increase homework completion rates of my students. Well, since that time I have had the oppoturnity to implement some of these new approaches with some success. I have decided to also talk to the students and find out what their attitude towards homework is. I will be implementing this questionnaire at the beginning of next semester so that I can begin work with a new group of students. I plan to use some of the strategies that I mentioned in my last post, but also utilize new strategies and techniques that represent some of the students' responses. For instance, in an informal question and answer session with current students, a lot of them were enthusiastic about have homework sent via text message and twitter each night before it was due. I will try to implement this strategy next semester among many others that will hopefully increase homework completion as well as overall assessment grades.
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The homework text thing is something I've heard about somewhere. The teacher chose one student to be in charge of sending text reminders about homework that was due. Also, when an assignment was given in class the teacher had the students pull out their phones and enter a reminder for the due date (probably by putting it on the phone calendar and setting it to ring before the due date). If I remember correctly it seemed to help the homework situation. It makes sense, we create reminders for ourselves all the time. Sticky notes, to do lists, etc. But students are glued to their phones, it makes sense to tap into a system they are already familiar with and use a lot. Some kids never look at a planner, even if teachers make them write things down in it. The student doesn't even think to look at it again. Good luck with homework!
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