Homework Suggestions?

In my blog I discussed my issue with students not doing their homework. I cannot get a good picture of who is and who is not learning the material if they don't present to me what they know (the homework grade lets me know if they understand or not) What suggestions do you have for me? I need my students to practice the math I am teaching. My students are failing partly because they are not doing the homework (getting zeros in the gradebook) and partly because not practicing the math results in failing test grades. How do you address the issue of "not doing homework"?

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Permalink Reply by Fawn Nguyen on February 1, 2012 at 14:47

Our kids have two periods of math a day, so we have the luxury of exchanging papers and correcting homework the next day. There is a check-off sheet for each chapter, and the assigned problems are on there for the corrector to mark right or wrong. Anyone scoring less than 70% gets ZAP (zeros are not permitted) meaning they need to go to the ZAP room to do their homework at lunch (bring their lunch) AND stay through lunch recess. A teacher gets extra-duty pay to watch the kids during ZAP. This really is the most effective way I've seen personally in last 20 years of teaching. Admin support needed of course.