Grant has given us a fourth concrete way to deal with recalcitrant/non-listening kids. Here are the other three that, at least in my mind, are Bad Boys #1, #2 and #3:
1. The Classroom Rules (happens very often, every day, in the first two or three weeks and then rarely, if you did it right with the laser pointer and a big Greg Stout smile.)
2. jGR (can happen every day but most people do it once or twice a week. No less than once a week.)
3. Ten Minute Deal (see the category) where we give quizzes more than once each class in order to drive the kid’s grade down real fast which prompts the confrontation and the parent contact, all of which must be done in the first month of the year and not put off. (With a class full of sloths just hanging there I would do this every day. It depends on the class and how much of their attention you want.)
Here is #4 from Grant, the Potter, Boulanger, the Baker, not the Baker, the Potter. He’s not a baker. Buy his pottery for Christmas gifts*. After the parent conference, which is necessary to set this up:
…[parents] asked for daily reports between now and conferences in 2 weeks. I countered with “how about we put the onus of responsibility on Angelina to come to me at the end of class and together fill out the interpersonal skills rubric, take that home to you to discuss?”….
So the idea here is that each day the comes to the teacher after class to fill out with the teacher the interpersonal skills rubric for that day, take it home, and discuss it with parents. Brilliant. This is extremely proactive. When you deal with a problem every day like this instead of at the end of a grading term, you are really going to solve it. The child will kind of have to change to at least fake it. The onus of responsibility (lit. the ability to respond) is squarely where it should be, on the child. Without daily interaction with the kid, the parents find out about the F when it really is too late which really pisses some parents off, even if the kid doesn’t care. Fall is the time of year to be proactive with discipline. Change the oil now or pay later.
There are more than a few rubrics that could be copied onto the four parts of a sheet of paper but I like this one from Erica best:
https://benslavic.com/blog/egr/
Related: https://benslavic.com/blog/jgr-how-often/
*https://www.facebook.com/boulangerpottery