Sunday, August 5, 2007

tried and true

In general, it's easy to discipline my younger classes, because they all have sticker charts they want to fill. They can get a maximum of three stickers a day, but I take stickers away if they're not behaving well or speaking Korean. Kids who lose all their stickers two days in a row shape up pretty fast.

But I run into a lot of trouble with the classes who are too old to care about stickers, so I'm constantly trying to come up with good ways to discipline them. I recently tried having them write sentences, and it worked really well -- especially when I told them I would send the papers home with their evaluations at the end of the month. I get a total kick out of it, so the trick is to not laugh while they're writing.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Liz, your posts made me so happy! The sentences are genius! I especially like the one that says "I will not say no to my teacher." haha~

Looks like you had an action-packed vacation. I've never been to Jeju-do. From your photos, it looks serene but it's definitely no paradise. It's funny that you got so many pictures of other people sleeping. Did you turn your flash off for those pics? Also, nice sandal tan!

FYI: A rallying phrase in Korea that you may find useful is the following: "A-jah a-jah hwa-i-ting!" 'Hwa-i-ting as in fighting, although I have no idea why it's 'hwa' and not 'pa', which woudl be closer to the English word. Anyway, good luck with work!!