Providing students with a choice is very effective in the classroom. I usually provide students with a choice, but lately that is how I have been making leaway with my "new student." The other day he handed me a science worksheet that had 3 our of 9 questions completed. I handed the worksheet back to him and told him that I will only take it completed. Then I told him that he had a choice, he could either finish the worksheet or take a zero on it. He was really mad and yelling so I told him don't do it and I won't have to take the time to grade it (probably not the right thing to say, but I said it anyway). Then I left the classroom (it was recess) to run some errands. When I returned there was the student sitting in his seat working away on his sheet. He finished it and brought it up to me completed. Then he appologized to me for his behavior, and I thanked him and told him he should be proud of the choice he made.
Providing choices with my class has proven effective. I was happy to know that providing my "new student" with a choice was effective, because I have not found much success with anything else I have tried. This student is very stubborn and does not care to be in school at all!
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