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[andrewchon]

Azby: you'll hear it again and again; you are like a Roman Emperor,
How do you control the people of Rome?
Games and Candy! Games and Candy!

Note: They are controllers. They don't make the students study, just controls them.

[Fox]

I find games and rewards make students worse rather than better in the long term. What's worked best for me is structured lesson plans focused mostly on class work. No special attempts to be entertaining, requests for games immediately and invariably met with, "No," followed by immediately continuing on with the lesson. Students who aren't participating well being singled out.

If the students know the lesson is going to occur regardless of their wishes, and they know that not participating when the class is practicing means they'll be reciting ALONE in front of the class, they shape up pretty quickly.

Over this Winter vacation, I ran a zero-game series of 3 hour a day, every day classes for 6th grade, with a comprehensive 65 question exam at the end. Almost half the class got over 90% on it, and these are the students who usually don't pay attention well in class. I had originally designed the class hoping the hard workers would sign up, but when I was left with the slackers, I pushed ahead with it anyway, and the results were good.

[nautilus]