7 TEACHER IDEAS FOR SUPPORTING STUDENTS WHO AREN’T

DOING ANY WORK AT ALL

What do you do when your students aren’t doing any work? Whether you are a new
teacher or a seasoned teacher, we all war with this. We desire to teach and help our students
learn. But penalizing students who aren’t doing any work doesn’t solve the problem. There are
ways we can help students who aren’t doing any work.
How we reply to missing or late work says a lot about what we suppose it capability to be
a teacher.
There’s a motive why the Facebook dialogue over this theme generated so many
comments. We desire students to learn, however for us to determine if they have learned, we
want them to do the work. If students don’t do any work this feels impossible. As a teacher, I
sense like I am an assignment supervisor sometimes greater than a teacher. I’m dependent on
the students to their work so I can do my job. So, what do we do? A frequent thread in the
remarks was: before we put a zero in our grade books, it’s well worth evaluating if the work
we’re asking students to do is meaningful. Do they have the capabilities they want to complete
it? Is it too much? Not enough? If we comprehend, we are asking students to do work that is
fair, we can shift our attention to why they aren’t doing it. Here are some methods teachers are
supporting students who aren’t doing any work.
1. Compassion and understanding must always be at the front of all we do. Teachers
must display grace and students must exhibit effort and verbal exchange with the teacher.
Students need to comply with the school requirements which is part of their growing up.

2. Invite students to replicate on why they aren’t doing any work. If a teacher has an
online class that the students fill out when they submit assignments after the due date. One field
they must fill out explains why it’s late. That has been eye-opening, and when they inform the
teacher what’s going on, the teacher must frequently offer grace and no penalty for being late.
Teachers must reach out and give students a hand who aren’t doing any work by getting them
began on the missing assignment, supporting them to make clear their thinking, or even making
ourselves accessible during the day or after hours to assist them attain success.

3. Teach students coping strategies. Begin or stop a classification with meditation exercises
to help students get focused. Check in with students at some stage in unbiased work. These are
simple and small approaches to help your students.

4. Ask students to write a time on tasks and set goals. Students must include what the
teachers have been doing in type and a picture of the grades from school. Students must include
an intention on how they will get lacking assignments in. Teachers must inform the parents
about the academic status of their children through text message, chat, parent-teacher
conference, home visitation, and other means and ways to address the situation.

5. Consider grading assessments, but no longer homework or different types of

practice. Teachers must grade the assessments only and make positive that is align with the
standards. This will supply the students a grade primarily based on what they be aware of and
can do. If they do not meet the entire assessments, supply an incomplete. Keep it simple.
Teachers grading the students on the work that they do, no longer the work that they don’t do.

6. Try superb reinforcement and have a good time students’ small win. Teachers must
create a board called “Make yourself PROUD!” and post weekly the names of the students that
are on undertaking and ship home certificates each month. Sometimes students simply want
extra encouragement. Although it is exhausting to see so many half-assed assignments. Teachers
must simply strive to convey that it’s now not what they anticipate from them. They must have a
copy-paste response: This mission is designed to show your understanding. Please overview the
material and when you turn in an instance of your understanding, your grade will reflect that!
You acquired this! Go give it some other go!

7. Even when you’ve tried everything, by no means provide up on your students.

Separating conduct from assessment is critical! Teachers can't understand all the reasons why
students may additionally no longer be finishing their work. It is convenient to simply say they
are lazy/choosing not to do the work and should be punished so they learn accountability
however this is not truly in the high-quality activity of the students. Many students do no longer
respond properly to this punitive gadget and will continue to fail. For the others, after months of
messaging the names of students who have done their homework, teachers can preserve the
light on…be excited and encouraging when they do appear.
Above all, teachers must always be open to all possible situations that might happen to the
future of the students. Help them…nurture them…support them…and PRAY for them.

DANILO B. TIGLAO JR.

Teacher II
Calulut Integrated School (SHS)