A possible idea, not fully tested yet, is to have a clipboard going during class with a transparency (from the old overhead projectors) over the class seating chart. Each time a kid does something good (following the Classroom Rules) or bad (usually blurting or cell phones) we make a plus or minus in their square on the seating chart. After class, with the kid’s jGR performance fresh in our minds, we put in the grade. Is it you, David, who suggested this first? I definitely didn’t get it. Grading right after class every day. Now I see the wisdom of it. And then just take the average? Or if there is an improvement over the grading period of course we average it up at the end. Anyway, I thought the clipboard thing might work. I’ll try it today. Any other ideas on this please share. I believe that it is the failure to enforce jGR that is a big issue in classrooms that are now in March having trouble staying in the TL. I don’t like more complicated systems of policing jGR, like competition between the teacher and the class for points for not speaking English, because I can’t do that and focus on keeping the CI going.
