 Re: How do you motivate students who know you have already graded them?
Yeah, I agree it is really not a good system and sometimes I see with the students why they behave like that because if I were in the same position I'd behave the same.
The things is, their progress evaluation sheets are so elaborate (Korean, Chinese, English) and take so much time for teachers to fill that the school administration thinks doing this like three weeks to the end of the semester is the best way to ensure that teachers all fill in their grades.
Yet there is more to the problem, it is at this same period that all the classes have their field trips in different turns. When the 6graders are on trip to Disneyland in Hongkong, how do you control the 5th graders who will be taking their turn in may be 2days time? Not to talk of the 6graders when they come back. We try to make them talk and write about their trip experiences but they find that very boring although talking about the trip all the time in their native tongue. They are all in such a dream world. I don't understand why we have to teach during these weeks.
Thanks Hue for your idea. It is good but I am wondering whether it could work with my students. They come from such rich families that they look down on such things. You know what I mean? When a 9 year old kid walks up to you and tells you that the Nike shirt you are putting on is fake and that he has the real one, then you know what to expect if you were to offer them some shirts to make them work. Pizza parties seem to capture them though.  |