Friday, January 8, 2010

Any advice to help get high school students to go to school?

I'm a psychologist in a school, and lately it seems like students don't want to go to school, don't care about their education, and don't ever turn in homework. I've got a 17-20 page list of students who are failing classes (not just one class, some are failing 5 out of 7). I'm young (25), but when I was in school, I don't remember the majority of people hating to go to school, and I don't remember teachers having problems with school work (maybe its because I was a student at the time, but still, I didn't hear it from peers).


Does anyone know what kind of positive behavioral supports I can easily implement so late in the school year?Any advice to help get high school students to go to school?
this is the program our schools use to reward students for attendance and high grades. hope it helps some.Any advice to help get high school students to go to school?
When I was in highschool we had incentive programs. For example, if everyone attended homeroom for a month (or if they didn't they had to have a valid note from a parent, guardian, doctor, etc) than the last school day of the month would be a ';free period'; for our homeroom. Also, we had a lot of in-school activities and field-trips. In order to attend hockey games, basketball games, etc during school hours or field trips out of school hours we had to have less than 1 un-accounted for skip per month during the year. A skip was considered a single class. We had four classes in the day, so if you skipped 4 classes that was 4 skips.





Being so late in the school year, it might be hard to start up an incentive program now, but you can always try to start it up.

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