The Group Merit System

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With the existence of the group blogs, there is also the existence of a permanent grouping system.
Upon these student groupings, I will base a Group Merit System.

The "Group Merit System" is a system where students in earn merit points for their groups.
The group with the highest ammount of merits wins a reward from Mr Yong at the end of his time with them.

Here is how they will earn merits or demerits...

Merits
- winning blog post awards (Most outstanding - 3 pnts / Excellent - 2 pnts / Good - 1 pnt)
- everyone in the group has handed in exercise books on time
- winning classroom games
- being cooperative in class

Demerits
- one person in the group did not hand in an exercise book on time
- distruptive class behaviour (after 2 warnings)
- refusal to follow instructions (after 2 warnings)

Comments

Anonymous said…
hi hi ...
group merit system ...
how did you came up of that ?

very creative ...

~ just wanna ask ~

NoNaM3 group has collected how many points?

Which group collected most points?

~ just wanna know ~

XD
August 14, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Jarod Yong said…
I came up with this using the behaviourist theory & child psychology theories that i studied in uni.

Reward & punishment + competitive classroom environment to give the teacher extra power to get students to do what he wants them to do.

I will post up a chart with all the points very soon...
August 21, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Anonymous said…
oh...
i see ...
very smart way...
of controling the class ...

XD
August 21, 2008 at 3:40 PM
NoNaM3 said…
so...
teacher...
If you really become a teacher...
Will you...
Still use this way to control your class??
August 24, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Jarod Yong said…
it will have to depend on the personality of the class...

if the students are not motivated, this method will not help because it adds extra pressure to them.

if the students are smart students who like to come to school & they are very competitive, this reward system will work majic!
=)
August 24, 2008 at 11:47 AM
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