Teaching is an art. It demands a lot of expertise and patience while checking notebooks. Errors are integral parts of the learning process so while checking the notebooks a teacher must keep a cool attitude. Generally, when we take a student’s notebook for correction, a student’s personality reflects in the notebook. A wise student’s different subject notebooks appear in a good condition. He maintains a standard format. We find each and every minute detail on the notebook i.e. properly covered notebooks with primary information, properly maintained index, the title of different lessons, complete classwork and homework, neat and clean handwriting, fewer spelling mistakes, and quality contents. We can judge a student’s personality partially if not completely by going through his notebooks.
Strategies that work for me:
Row monitor: The teacher can make row monitors from each row. Give students a chance, and time, to correct themselves, row monitors can correct notebooks students. This will often help to create a positive class atmosphere as students realize teacher is not the only source of error correction and they can learn a lot from one another.
The teacher should ensure the answer must be relevant to the question: The wise teacher ensures that the students have written quality answers. We develop the habit of writing meaningful, contextual, and relevant answers.
Ask students to redo the work if there is a need for major correction: The teacher ensures that the student has re-written the wrong spelling and meaningless answer once again to avoid confusion before the examination as practice will make them better.
Discourage overwriting: The teacher instills a good habit among his students right from the beginning to re-write miss-spelled word. He encourages his students to avoid the bad habit of overwriting because it shows student’s inability.
Underline the mistakes: A wise teacher usually sensitizes his students to different mistakes in the notebook. He underlines the incorrect answer and ticks or marks a double line under the error. Good teachers do not underline all the mistakes at a time. It may be a disheartening and discouraging moment for a student. They may feel bad and form a negative attitude towards learning and towards doing hard work. Nurture the individual nature of committing mistakes and evaluates the causes behind the present situation. It will take time but improvement will be there.
Fixed a day for notebook checking: Students should know on which day their notebook will be checked. We can divide the student's roll no wise. It will ease the task of the teacher and for the students as well.
Give appreciation:
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The teacher’s positive remarks on the notebook effectively make a great appeal and sense in the student’s mind. The teacher makes his learners sensible. He writes rational, relevant, and concrete remarks in the student’s notebook. Teachers should write detailed comments to sensitize the students. Writing details comments/remarks do not help until we do proper follow-up as a reminder. When we do regular follow up; student thinks that my teacher still remembers my mistakes.
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Suggest ways and means improve writing habit/questions/spelling/grammatical correction/handwriting
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Kindergarten and Primary Teachers are encouraged to give stickers, stars, and smiley faces as rewards for students.
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Handwriting should be improved in due course of time/provide help to your student.
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Give emphasis on the neatness of work and maintenance of the notebooks
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Praise the quality of the work, not the individual.
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