I appear to be climbing into the pit of after-school remediation, which is a dangerous place to live. However, it is AMAZING what I can do when there are only a few children in the room. I can…(gasp) tell each of them what it is they need to do and what they might be doing wrong.
James, for example, stayed after Thursday and Friday. His mother had grounded him last week based on his last math test score (something around a 15%) and this test, he improved to a 36%, but that is…well, its not the kind of improvement we wanted. For that reason, I told my whole class that after i showed them their scores, if they wanted to improve them, they needed to come in after school for at least one day to address exactly what they missed on their test. At the end of their time, they would take a brieeeeff assessment, wherein I’ll probably just change the numbers to the math problems from the test, and see how they do. If they get them correct, I’ll add those points to the test. This will be credit for both putting forth the effort to come in after school (something 11 year olds don’t really enjoy) and for hopefully learning the math that they didn’t understand.

I told them they could come in Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, but they needed a note from home. We’ll see how it goes. I’m positive.