We decided as a team to call every parent of students that did not do homework on the first assignment. It was a horrible idea. Of the 32 / 175 kids that did not do their homework, 8 of them did not have home numbers that I could reach. It was tiring calling so many phones, especially because many of the parents did not speak english. Hopefully this helps to get kids to do their homework in the future.
My script was: "Hello, my name is Ms. Lim, your student’s science teacher. __ did not complete their homework in science class last night. This year team awesome expects 100% completion of homework. Please sign your student’s syllabus and have them return it to class on Monday. "
I also did cooperative groups and handed out science notebooks today. Most of them either liked or hated working with new people, but hardly any of them had done something like this before. I hope I get a chance to use these groups with real content in the future.
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