Are you still having trouble getting students to complete their homework?

Personally, I am always looking for new ways to improve the percentage of students who complete their homework.

Here’s something one of my colleagues recently told me about…

When students do not complete the homework they must fill out a “Homework Responsibility Card”.

The card is quite simple and may look something like this:

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Today’s Date:

Student Signature:
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Cards are available as soon as students walk into the classroom. Any student who did not complete the homework must fill out a card.

This way every student is handing in something. The teacher is either collecting the homework or is collecting the “homework responsibility card”.

The homework responsibility card works well for several reasons:

1. Students do not want to fill out the card…so to some extent it works as a minor punishment.

2. Students are forced to actually think about why they did not do the homework.

3. By having students sign the card they are accepting responsibility of their actions.

4. The teacher has a copy of student excuses that can be used during parent-teacher conferences.

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Are you still having problems getting your students to complete homework?

For more homework strategies that you can start applying to your very next class make sure read eTeach: A Teacher Resource for Learning the Strategies of Master Teachers @ www.TeachingTeacher.com

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