If you are assigned as the Homework Logger for a particular week, it is your responsibility to thoroughly and accurately document the agenda of the classroom, as well as the assigned homework, for each given day of the week. You must use a separate log form for each day. If there are handouts, it is your responsibility to obtain a copy for each absent classmate and you must write their name at the top of each paper. This will help to ensure that each absent student receives his or her assignment.
At the end of the class period, you will staple your homework log form to the top of the distributed assignments, and will file these into your class homework folder.
Incentive
If your successfully complete all homework logs for your assigned week, you will receive three separate passes, good for five-bonus points each, that you may use toward any homework, quiz, or exam!
* If you are absent on any given day, your teacher will complete your daily log for you, with no penalty toward the total bonus points that you are able to earn for the week.
Absent Students
It is your responsibility to check your class homework folder on that day that you return to school. Assignments must be completed within forty-eight hours of your return. Any assignments submitted after that point will be recorded as a zero in the gradebook.
Name ______
Date ______
Today in class, we did the following:
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Our homework was the following. It is due on: ______
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The following students were absent. Their work is attached to this form.
1. ______
2. ______
3. ______
4. ______
5. ______
6. ______
8:1
Name
/ Dates ResponsibleCassandra Perre-Louis / January 24th-January 28th
Nathalie Santana / January 31st-February 4th
Loida Scotland / February 7th-February 11th
Luis Toro / February 14th-February 18th
Jaime Urraca / February 21st-February 25th
Jose Abreu / February 28th-March 4th
Ruth Arce / March 7th-March 11th
Natasha Aucoin / March 14th-March 18th
8:2
Name
/ Dates ResponsibleMichael Watson / January 24th-January 28th
Gillian Wert / January 31st-February 4th
Kyle Westerman / February 7th-February 11th
Kassee Wilson / February 14th-February 18th
Ronny Yanes-Perez / February 21st-February 25th
Sondra Page / February 28th-March 4th
Cristaliz Arroyo / March 7th-March 11th
Alexander Austin / March 14th-March 18th
8:3
Name
/ Dates ResponsibleMichael Starbard / January 24th-January 28th
Aaron Thompson / January 31st-February 4th
Pablo Torres / February 7th-February 11th
Jonathan Velez / February 14th-February 18th
Walter Annobil / February 21st-February 25th
Cindy Alvarado / February 28th-March 4th
Luis Benitez / March 7th-March 11th
Jamil Bernal / March 14th-March 18th
Class:______
Name
/ Dates ResponsibleClass:______
Name
/ Dates ResponsibleClass:______
Name
/ Dates ResponsibleC. Hoskins
May 17, 2005
Homework Stations
Establishing a designated homework station within your classroom is one of the simplest and most efficient ways to hone the organizational skills and increase the individual motivation and accountability of your students. An effectively designed homework station is comprised of several key components:
- Homework Log
A weeklong homework chart should be displayed in a prominent location within your classroom. This homework should be erased as each new day is logged to fill the previously occupied spot. Maintaining this documentation of both new and old assignments will enable the teacher and students to look in retrospect at work that has been assigned.
- Homework Bins
A designated location for submitting assignments and placing work to be returned is an organizational strategy that no teacher should be without. Using stacking trays or three-tiered Rubbermaid storage bins (available at most organizational stores), label an “In” bin and an “Out” bin for each of your classes. This center can be student maintained, where homework is deposited upon entrance into your classroom, or can be teacher facilitated by collecting, paper clipping, and depositing daily homework to be graded at a later time.
- Homework Logging Forms and Homework Crate
A class and homework logging position will strengthen the community of your classroom, will increase student accountability for work missed, and will lessen the burden on the teacher to ensure that each student personally receives the agenda and assignments for the day(s) that they are out.
To initiate this community building strategy, post the attached forms on your homework station: one form provides an overview to the program, the second assigns students to specific weeks, and the third is a template for the Homework Logger to utilize (a plastic sleeve of these posted to the station works well). A student who is assigned in this role for the week will arrive to class and will take a documentation template from the homework station. The student will log the agenda of in-class work completed, the assigned homework, as well as a written account of students absent for the day. This form will be stapled to any handouts for the day and will be filed in a homework crate. This homework crate should have color-coded hanging folders for each of your classes. Each week should have its own folder (labeled with the week start and end date) where daily homework logging forms and assignments can be stored. Students who are absent can check the crate upon returning to school, have immediate access to the agenda and assignments for the day missed, and can consult the teacher with any questions that they may have. Students who successfully complete the requirements of this position for their assigned week are eligible to receive recognition for their efforts. This may come in the form of bonus-points, a homework pass, or whatever else the teacher deems appropriate.
- Homework Thermometers
Nothing helps build student motivation like the thrill of competition. Whether independently or as a whole class, students thrive off the excitement of a contest. To give positive recognition for homework completed, create a simple, two-dimensional, laminated thermometer for each of your classes. Section off this thermometer into increments of ten, label one thermometer for each of your classes, and post these in or near your homework station. Each student can earn a point a week for his or her class by completing all of their homework assignments for that respective week. Over the weekend, tally those students with 100% homework submission, and color in you thermometers for each class on Monday morning. The first class to reach the top can earn a movie, a pizza party, or any other reward deemed appropriate. At this point, all homework thermometers are wiped clean and the competition begins once again!