Teachers dedicate much time to preparing assignments and marking them to assist learners in improving their learning and acquiring new skills.
Some learners are never serious about submitting assignments for marking in a timely manner. In most cases, teachers rarely give learners 100 per cent completion of tasks.
Some learners from rich backgrounds engage others to do assignments for them, and they remunerate them accordingly.
Teachers can motivate learners to complete assignments by using a reward system. This will help them realise their worth and feel.
Teachers should embrace praise and constructive criticism. This will keep learners on their toes as they look forward to understanding new concepts.
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Learning should be fun, and the teacher should put a lot more emphasis on testing and grading. This will gradually encourage competition through the set assessment model.
The teacher must understand the learners’ diverse abilities to encourage them to do assignments. Learners’ family backgrounds are also important so that relevant learning methods can be applied during testing.
The other crucial step is that the teacher must be a role model, and all assignments must be marked promptly so that the learners can get effective feedback in real-time.
The teacher must improve the learning environment for all learners to eradicate all obstacles.
Parents and guardians must be involved in extreme cases to give the learners new impetus to complete assignments. Under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), parents should assist learners in doing the tasks.
Teachers should take the lead in encouraging learners to tailor the best modalities for completing assignments. This will make them own the entire process of completing assignments.
It’s necessary to create workable timelines and durations for finishing assignments.
By Hillary Muhalya
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