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[afsjesse]

So I was desperate to turn my classes into something productive because there were the few kids that were horrible, disrupted my classes, hitting students, calling Jesse the big bad fat teacher etc....

So I created a reward point scheme. Each class get's 10 points and everytime there bad or break the rules ive made, i deduct 1. At the end of the month if they have 61 points or more I give them a Ice cream party. I only have each class 8 times per month so 61 i thought was a good number.

They've been good ever since. Except one class

Just thought I'd pass along the Idea. The rules I use are as follows.

1. No Speaking Korean.
2. Listen to Jesse
3. Participate in class
4. No fighting
5. Be quiet.

[Tjames426]

I've had several students who were just horrific. But I saw one boy change from bad to good.

A boy about 13 years old. He would hide in the corner away from me.

He hated to read.
He hated to talk.
He would not interact.
He would not do his homework.

One day, he was at school waiting for his CD class. i came in early to do some lesson-planning. In the Library, he was flipping through a book of jets and planes. He was looking at a plane that looked like an early "flying wing". I looked over his shoulder. He asked me about the plane.

So, I went to my office's laptop, and googled it. I pulled him into my office and we looked at the google images of the plane and etc... .

Next thing, he wanted to look at online BB guns and stuff. We went to Ebay. He started haltingly talk about having a certain kind of military BB gun.

So, we spent like 30 minutes picking and looking at different types of guns. We googled a new kind of Korean tank. We watched a youtube video of it.

Within a few classes his attitude changed. The next term, he began finishing his homework. He was a totally different student in class. he began talking about going to English camp and etc... .

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He still sits in the corner though.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[thegadfly]

The rules are pretty good, but the ice cream party is...unnecessary?

I would suggest couching your rules in positive terms rather than negative terms though -- for example, #1 should be Only Speak in English, #4 and #5 could be covered with the rule Be Respectful of Others (Classmates and the Teacher).

[Leslie Cheswyck]

[ryouga013]

Most of the students thought it was easier to leave than to change so that they could be treated like humans. And it was... I wouldn't want to try to stay with a teacher that didn't find the humor in having things stuck up their butt, being hit in the back of their bad knee, having a slingshot used on them or thinks that screaming at the top of their lungs is inappropriate behavior... that type of teacher must be Satan-incarnate.

I think most of the students understand me now though. They behave for the most part, I don't ride them. If they are bad every day, I let them play less and less... so, if they keep a decent balance, I treat them more than favorably. I'm not expecting perfection, not even close.

[daemyann]