Three tenets of my educational philosophy are no/or very limited homework, no letter grades, and no punishment or rewards. My passion for these run deep and I find myself continually reflecting upon it on this blog. So behold, an index of posts related to these three topics.
No Homework:
No Grades:
No Punishment/No Rewards:
No Homework:
- How Homework Destroys
- So What's My Problem with Homework?
- Why the Grade x 10 Minutes for Homework is a Fail
- From the Mouth of Babes - My Students Discuss Homework
- We Don't Need Any More "How to Cope With Homework Lists" - What We Need Is a Debate
- But How Do You Really Get Rid of Homework and Still Know Where Students Are at?
- My Kid is Drowning in Homework - Why Parents Should Speak Up And How
- No Homework - Two Years Later
No Grades:
- How Do You Assess Without Grades - 5 Tips to Ease the Transition
- But We Worked so Hard On It....
- Rulebreaker
- So How's This Whole No Grading Thing Going For Ya?
- So What Does a B+ Mean to You - Quitting Grades Does Not Mean You Are a Hippie
- So You Want to Quit Letter Grades - A Practical Guide from Someone Who's Done It and Survived
- Giving Grades Is the Easy Way Out
- Please Don't Mark it Wrong - How Our Society Raise Children Afraid to Fail
- Why the Report Card Should Be Getting an F
- Is the Report Card Obsolete?
- Throwing Out Grades Doesn't Mean Throwing Out Expectations
- Not Grading is Awful
No Punishment/No Rewards:
- Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones But rewards Will Always Hurt You - Confessions of a Former Rewards Addict
- Question the Enforced and Inane
- All You Have to Do is Show Up - A Tale of Perfect Attendance
- Put Your Name on the Board - A Tale of Why I Gave Up Classroom Discipline Systems
- I Do Not Manage
- The Story of my Brother the Onion Boy
- Peter, Sit Up and Listen - Or Why Using Student Names in Punishment only Backfires
- Some Thoughts on Motivation
- So I Gave Up Punishment and the Kids still Behaved
- My Barren Wasteland - A Room Without Rewards
- Give Me Back That Gold Star or How Do You Reward Students When You Don't Believe in Rewards?
- Why Have You Not Given Up Rewards Yet?
- Awards for All Means Students Still Lose - No Matter How Well Meaning They Are
- How Do I Punish My Students? Umm, I Try Not To
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