You have been assigned a large group of students for remedial work?
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Depends on the kind of remediation.  We music teachers often get stuck with that. :) Whatever the subject, I reccomend breaking things down into managable tasks through to-do lists (i.e.--to solve these kinds of math problems we do step 1, then step 2 goes like this. . . ).  To-do lists are easily displayed via powerpoint to large groups of students, and hand-outs can be printed directly from the presentation so they can use the list as a reference at home.  The hand-outs are also excellent for students who are visually impaired because they can be enlarged.  Also consider what technology resources will be made available to you. . . several schools in my area don't have computer screen projectors, so in that case it wouldn't be possible to use powerpoint in the same way.
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People who graduated from a certain school.
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If your unmotivated are teenage boys, I've always thought it would be great if we could have a life-sized poster of a beautiful, naked girl at the front of class with layers of clothing taped over her. Each time the boys did something well, we could remove a piece of clothing. I think that would really work. Until we can get away with that, I know of only one other consistently successful method. I have found sincere praise works wonders. The "coolest", toughest students I've taught (and we're talking gang bangers) have melted when I've told them that the reason I push them is because I still like them and think they are worth my time and effort. When I stop pushing them, that's when they will know I have decided they are a waste of time.
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Twenty pages of worksheets?  Are you joking?  That is just going to bore the students into bad behaviour.  Why not assign a different review activity?  Maybe assign each group a major vocab AND grammar concept from the semester, and have them design a game to test their classmates' knowledge of that area.  Or again, give groups a grammar and vocab concept and have them work together to write a script for a short play (or scene) that reviews that concept.  Let them work together to memorize the play and they can perform it when you return to show the work they did.  \n\nAs for English, if you normally spend the entire block in silent reading then I guess you could continue to do that.  But again, why not give the students something that actually ENGAGES them in the learning process?  Have them find a news story that reflects one of the central issues in the play.  When they come to class they can work in groups to discuss how their chosen story relates to the play.  Then ask them to swap news stories with a partner and write a letter to the editor relating that story to the play to current events to their opinions.\n\nThe worst thing you can do when you've got a sub is to give the kids mindless work, which seems to be exactly what you've got planned.  You're just asking for them to act out.
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maybe get everyone in the class to chip in and throw him/her a suprise party. i did that for one of my teachers before w/ a couple of friend and she was realli moved. she was touched that we organized everything and had everyone participate.
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get involved with the students and know them beyond the teacher/student relationship.  is there anything that they're dealing with at school?  perhaps a school event?  talk with them about things other than books and problems.  i don't know what grade level you're talking about and i'm not a teacher, just a student.  perhaps have activities that can show the students that it's not all about homework and tests.  how to do this?  not so sure.  but these are my suggestions.
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Mr. Myles is that you!!!!!!!!!!!! because if it is this is one of your students
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Have a teacher assign a team project that would be graded on
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Are you trying to milk people for ideas for a school assignment?
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send that drop out back to school
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why are the students planning it and not the administration?\n\noh.  Just keep it simple.  Have the student with highest gpa give a speech, maybe have the class vote on a teacher to give a speech (maybe chose one that is retiring as a special sendoff for them too).  Nothing fancy.  When I graduated from junior high that's all they did.
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Umm.... Is this like your entire homework assignmen?
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You need to create a sense of unity among your staff/family feeling, combined by highly consistent discipline for student behaviors, cross-grade curriculum mapping by the staff as a team, close networking across grade levels/subjects and service levels/specialties, and staff and student ownership of schoolwide success in learning and behavior. Have fun!
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Congratulations to you, and a hearty cheer for taking on such a challenging task.\n\nI arrived mid year once to teach 8th grade English and History.  The situation was not as...degenerated as you describe, but it was tough for both sides.\n\nI think others have given valuable advice.  These kids need structure and enforcement of rules, whether they know it or not.  Make your rules fair and apply them equitably and you should have some success.\n\nI do disagree with the idea of using a Homework pass as a reward.  Don't we assign homework because of it's value to learning?  Letting a student earn the privilege not to do an assignment completely dilutes its educational value to the students left doing it.  Other rewards are certainly useful, though.  Stickers actually work to motivate a lot of kids.  Even though they're in 10th grade, they'd still like to bring home a "refrigerator paper" to show mom and dad (or whoever's at home).\n\nI think you also need to acknowledge out loud the things many of these kids have gone through outside of school, as well as the turmoil they have faced in school with this course.  Lay out your rules early and often.  Follow through with disciplinary action, but be a nice, reasonable person.  Find out what the school administration would consider success for this course this year, tell the kids, then go for it.\n\nBest wishes.
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Sounds to me like someone's trying to get total strangers to do their high school homework for them instead of doing it themselves.
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If he has no problem with this, seems fine to me.  Are you helping him out in another way, unrelated to the project?\n\nWhen I was in school and we had group projects, I never minded doing the whole thing.  I generally got good grades and if the people I got paired with weren't the studious type, they more than welcomed me to do the whole thing.\n\nIn fact, since it's your friend who's doing the project, that should make it easier.  You probably got his back on something else sometime down the road, even if it's not school related.
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kinda late in the semester for someone else to do your homework ain't it?????