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Hi Valerie,
Wow, yeah, It would be so hard to accomplish without grading! It is practice, but I still feel that the effort needs to be rewarded. Here's how I grade homework:
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Can you do a similar point system and just count it towards a team competition with points rather than factoring it into a final grade? I doubt that would work in high school, but it may motivate some middle schoolers. Maybe? That is definitely a challenge!
Thanks!
-Brigid
Our parish has also moved to no completion grades allowed. Given that I also agree that homework is an opportunity for the students to practice and correct mistakes have you read or heard of other ways we could "grade"homework?
Hi Tonya,
Can you do grades at all? Here are my thoughts on just giving a 1-4 score for trying it, but if that does not work, maybe just beef up your warm-up time to review the previous day through bellringer activities?
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Have a great school year!
-Brigid
I really like giving online homework two or three times a week. The kids get immediate feedback on each problem as they practice, which really helps their learning, and each student can proceed at his or her own pace... I use the IXL website for practice with specific skills that I assign, as well as MobyMax and Khan Academy for remediation and/or acceleration... I require the kids to work the problems on paper and turn in the work the next day, to prevent someone from just entering random answers, but no class time is needed for going over the problems. Also, the websites give me helpful data about the students' work.
Hi Cynthia,
That's awesome! What a great way to do this. Thanks for sharing the specific online programs that you use. This is so helpful! This sounds like an awesome strategy to try. Thanks so much for the great idea!
- Brigid
I'm wondering if this will work with my second graders??? I love partners and split end strategies. I currently use the elbow or knee partners, since they sit in groups but I think assigning a special he partner for a month is interesting!!!
A HW review strategy that has worked for me with 4th and 5th graders is to have table groups. At the beginning of the year, I introduce and practice having students go through HW one problem at a time, with students taking turns reading out the answer they got. If all students have the same answer...perfect--they move on to the next question. If there are multiple answers, all students circle that problem and move on to the next one--here's the tricky part...I insist that they refrain from arguing or debating problems with different answers. After 3-4 minutes, I ask the whole class who needs to see or discuss any problems, and I only need to review those specific problems! I love this method because it gives me a few minutes to check in with individual students, give everyone credit for getting HW done, and allows me to see quickly when students have mastered a skill, or when I need to spend some time reteaching because most of the HW ends up being circled by a majority of students.
I do this same method in high school but I call it "fight for your answer" because if they have different answers I want them to discuss how they arrived at the answer. Usually they find their own mistakes and I don't have to spend as much time on the homework. They learn from finding their own mistakes.
I'm a parent, and I want to help my middle-school aged son learn how to check his homework for errors before turning it in. Do you have any ideas of how I can give him a systematic way of doing this?
Thanks :-)
Hi Colleen,
The textbook usually has answers in the back (at least for odd numbers), so that is a good place to start. For worksheets, etc. where that is not an option, you may want to try the app "photomath." Just give clear guidelines on when he can and cannot use it! :) I also always like kids to get plenty of reminders to check their notes! We do notes for a reason, and so many of them never use them effectively.
Thanks,
-Brigid
I teach statistics to community college students. After a semester or two of reviewing homework in class, I realized that I couldn't spend the time unless it was maybe one problem nobody understood. I also now have my homework online in WebAssign, so I can see at a glance which problems are causing most students to lose points and can address the whole class proactively about those problems. I mostly give credit for completion rather than correctness. I like your ideas about homework partners right at the start of class, or posting the answers after the due date and having students self-correct. Both of these in combination might help my students tremendously. I also hold office hours, so they can come by as needed (or email or text me) to get homework help.
Thanks for always putting great ideas out there!
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