Students (or your kid) who refuses to do an assignment. — this approach is not a silver bullet — but I find a lot success using this approach in the classroom.

Oct 12, 2020 4:51 AM

StevesAPunk

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Steps 1 & 2 - most important

Technically - the conclusion - it’s out of order for stupid reasons.

Steps 3 & 4 .... it ends up blurry if I move it up a spot. *shrugs* - you get the idea.
Sauce: https://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/truth-for-teachers-podcast/refuses-to-work/

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I'm glad we naturally just sort of do this with our kid. We ask him to tell us how he feels, whats going on and how we can help.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My parents didn't get that I had depression or what it was. Senior year of high school.it finally clicked that no amount of consequences 1/

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

would make me do my schoolwork. (They didn't know there were three suicide attempts up to that point). My dad made popcorn and helped me 2/

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

do the minimum to pass on my course recovery classes in the fastest time possible. He made it a game of how quickly we could half ass 3/

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

assignments to get the minimum passing grade. Every week we would get root beer and talk about non school stuff, which was great because 4/

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

the past six years had been little else than arguing about schoolwork. I was able to be more open about my interests and work on them 5/

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

instead of staring at blank papers all day and staying up all night doing nothing but delaying the next day. I learned so much in my free 6/

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0