Chapter 10 dealt entirely with the concept of making up late work. The chapter goes in to some detail concerning certain instances where late work might occur, and how to deal with them in the form of some sort of policy. Generally, the book says it is best to give students who were showing effort on a piece the opportunity to revise their work for a better grade. It was highly recommended that there be some sort of system that will ensure late work is not just blown off work. One suggestion was for the teacher to rewrite the assignment so students have to show effort in the work. Other recommendations included parents signing notes as well. At the very least this would encourage parent involvement and therefore diminish the chances of a student using the full credit make up system for "blow-off" purposes. It is also strongly recommended that a time limit be instated for late work, as well as not allowing any make up work for the last week of a grading period. This is mostly for teacher purposes, seeing as cramming make-up grades in to the gradebook at such a late time would be very stressful for the teachers.
Basically everyone agreed with the ideas introduced in the book. Students should certainly be allowed full credit makeups and revisions, but there are definite limitations that need to be addressed in order to maintain some sort of classroom sanity. Many people exclaimed in the definite line given for the do's and don'ts of makeup and revision work.
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Good Late Work policy site. Bookmarked it for help with my absent student policy.
Great work Carl! I love it.
Really great finds kyle. I liked the site with the late work policys. This will be helpful when making a syllabus.
I like the first link on late work policy, I'm sure it will be helpful.
the first site was really good because it gave more ideas about late work on top of what we read in the chapter!
good job Kyle with the excellent links. How is sportsnick responding to all this. I really like the second link. It seemed especially helpful.
I really liked the link that had policies for work and absent students. This will be a really useful website.
I really liked the link on parental involvement. I've been on that side of the students who have parents who remain uninvolved all throughout. Thanks for the links
The second link was great. I found both of the links very helpful. Great job!
I really like the link about late work policy. I think it will be helpful.
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