If there is one thing teachers struggle with, it is students not having anything to write with in class. Every period there is a handful of student's who don't have a pencil.
'What? Do you think you will be excused from all assignments if you don't bring a pencil to class? NO!"
If you do not provide the kids with a pencil, then they will sit there and do nothing all class long and hope you don't notice. And nothing gets done.
But if you give them a pencil, you'll likely never see it again, and yet that student will be without a pencil again the next day. I'm not an infinite source of pencils, so this cannot go on!
It is seriously the most annoying thing ever, and it is a struggle every teacher faces.
Other teachers out there have their way of dealing with this, but this is what I have found to work best for me:
PENCILS OF SHAME!!!
I took all my brand new pencils and taped big, ugly pictures of Justin Bieber to them like a flag flying just below the eraser. On the back of these pictures I wrote "Ms. T's Pencil of SHAME".
I keep them in a box in a cupboard. My kids know where they are and they can help themselves to them without asking. But the hideousness of these pencils keeps them in my classroom. I see it happen. Kids get about as far as my doorway when they look down at what's in their hand and see Justin Bieber staring back at them. They don't want to be seen with a pencil like that, so they stop dead in their tracks, turn around, and put the pencil back.
There, problem solved.
Thank you, Justin Bieber.
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