>I'm looking for >an extension of the carrot and stick approach. X amount of homework >gets done - Y amount of their time they can waste in massively >multiplayer games. I can see it as a stress reliever but it also >becomes a method of work avoidance At their age they do not see all >that far down the road of life very clearly.
Reward performance, not mere effort. Teaching them to merely look busy is a poor lesson indeed. Give them an hour to go over their lessons and then review the topics with them. You will be able to quickly judge performance and you will be doing something that actually improves performance. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
