<p>2 classes offer Class participation. One of them is self-evaluation :)</p>
<p>At my school, participation grades are pretty much a guaranteed 100% for us. The teachers won't take off points if you don't talk (good example of that: me in ap gov) and the only reason they would subtract points would be if you severely ****ed them off.</p>
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At my school, participation grades are pretty much a guaranteed 100% for us. The teachers won't take off points if you don't talk (good example of that: me in ap gov) and the only reason they would subtract points would be if you severely ****ed them off.
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wow, I wish I were in your school... Our participation grades are mostly based on how much you talk... Thats why I have Bs for participation in English and APUS</p>
<p>I always talk in class, but I hate participation grades -- it makes everyone else super-eager to talk so the teacher rarely calls on me. Besides, why force people to talk in class when they may not learn well that way?</p>
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How else do you get noticed by a teacher to get a good recommendation? If there's another way besides participating, let me know.
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<p>1) Visit them at lunch
2) Do brilliant work
3) Show passion for the subject
4) Tell them math jokes
5) Don't obviously suck up. Example: Oh, you're sick today? Here's a cough drop! How's your two-year-old son?</p>
<p>Just be memorable, overall, for your own personality...and don't look like you're doing it to impress the teacher.</p>
<p>I'm not a very social person and I don't want to live that kind of life. But teachers at my school don't really take points off if you don't participate because hardly anyone does.</p>
<p>In my APUSH class everyone is quiet (I think it is probably the fear of answering incorrectly). Our teacher calls us his "quiet class" lol.</p>
<p>I actually used to raise my hand to almost every question the teacher asked when I was in 7th and 8th grade, but they would never call on me, so I guess I got discouraged.</p>
<p>I never talk in class. Some teachers, like my English II teacher last year, still gave me A's in participation because I am well-behaved, I guess. However, in AP Euro I had to fight against B-'s in participation all year, but still got an A. </p>
<p>This year I'm getting B-'s in participation in AP Comp, and it's getting really hard to hold on to my A-...I guess I may just have to raise my hand and talk.</p>
<p>yeah whenever we get participation grades, they just give a mix of 95, 98, and 100. They just want to help kids grades and if you're not an ass in class then you get one of those 3 grades picked out of a hat for you</p>
<p>Teachers don't like to see students fail, so they don't usually give out low participation grades.</p>
<p>Thats how it is at my school.</p>
<p>Teachers just don't want someone to sit there and do nothing all period, so I guess participation grades fill that gap.</p>
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How else do you get noticed by a teacher to get a good recommendation? If there's another way besides participating, let me know.
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<p>Fizix has pretty much got it covered, but I'd like to throw my own experience in there. I asked my French teacher to write me a rec because I had her as a freshman and junior, and I think she knew me better than any English teacher. I participated in this class more than in other classes, but that isn't to say that I participated regularly.</p>
<p>I think, just based on the amount of effort I put into my work and the interest I showed in class and other assignments, she formed a positive opinion of me. And when I talked with her about my rec, she told me that it'd be really easy to write one for me because even though she knew I probably wasn't going to do anything with French in the future, she also knew that I was passionate about it.</p>
<p>I hate participation grades!!!!!!! My english teacher is a really hard grader when it comes to those!!!! you need to answer at least 3 times per class to get an A in participation.</p>