Hi!
I always grade homework on effort. I tried to use the “no homework binder” this year, but I was unsuccessful. I had so many students standing in line to sign the book, they were missing the whole warm-up. So I reverted back to my long-time method of wandering the classroom during warm-up time to check for completion.
- Assignments usually have choice. Often I give some page numbers and have them choose at least 5 odd problems.
- Since they are odds, they should check their answers in the back of the book, after each one, to see if they are doing it correctly.
- The choice allows students who feel comfortable with the topic to choose a more challenging problem, or even to choose to do more problems (and yes, some students actually choose to do more problems, and the more difficult ones)
- They do their on the page facing the notes page so they can refer to their notes.
- I check their homework during warm-up. They do warm-up on the same page as the homework, so they should already have it open for me to glance at.
- I just check to see if they did the problems. 2 points if completed, 1 point if some are complete, and 0 if little none are complete.
- I bring my clipboard and only mark those that didn’t get 2 points and those that are absent.
- Students can show me late homework for half credit.
- Every once in awhile, I will assign specific problems because I would like to go over them in class.
- Students may always ask to over a problem in class.
- Homework is 10% of the grade, so some students think that they don’t need to do it. Not suprisingly, those students are the same ones that don’t do well on their assessments!
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