On Monday afternoons I teach Year 8 followed by Year 7s. Some students are always on task but others just seem to drift through the lesson virtually anonymously. It is with these lessons in particular that I have given careful consideration to raise engagement and participation.
I really liked the raffle ticket idea, however, I couldn't find any in Tesco at the weekend. Instead what I done was to reward a student with a house point and that subsquent house point meant they could put their name on a small piece of paper which could be entered into the prize draw hat... My word I have never seen such a swarm of hands being raised for every question, it really was a pleasure to see. I almost ran out of room on the board giving out all these house points. Students who didn't normally particpate suddenly were interacting and particpating.
This worked really well with the year 8s and the following lesson the year 7s took to it in a similar fashion.
I have started to have a few low level disruptions in my year 9 lessons, which is effecting the pace and flow of the lessons at times. I am wondering if I haven't given enough thought to behaviour management in these lessons, especially in regards to what I have implemented in the KS3 ones. Tomorrow I intend to change the seating round and should that fail then may be they might warm to the raffle idea as house points haven't seemed particularly strong motivators so far.
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