To help control my classroom and keep punishment fair, I am using a Wheel of Misfortune that I inherited from my mentor teacher. She is the school's librarian and no longer needs her wheel. She gave it to me and it has been a hit! Well, the kids who haven't had to spin it, love it.
Here's how it works: it's a wooden wheel about 12' tall on a base. It has 8 different numbered sections with one tiny little section labled "fortunate." I have a poster on the wall next to the wheel with all the corresponding punishments. They are as follows: 1. lunch detention (10 min) 2. student writes letter to parent 3. teacher and student call parent 4. lunch detention (10 min) 5. student writes one page essay 6. student cleans my room at lunch 7. lunch detention (10 min) 8. student writes one page essay
It makes my job a lot easier not to have to dole out differnt types of punishment. They just spin the wheel and serve what number they land on. Plus, all I have to do is look at a kid with my "eye" and say, "wheel."
Eventually, I will post some pics of the wheel.
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