Should I change a classroom score chart when a pupil improves but still sees his name at the bottom?
Education"I got eight more right and I'm still last." A pupil said it quietly while I was updating the class score chart.
I made the chart to encourage my class to practise multiplication facts. It shows each child's latest score. Some children enjoy seeing their names move, and one asked whether she could decorate the top box. Others now check the chart before looking at the comments on their own work.
The pupil who spoke had improved from six to fourteen correct answers. I told him I was pleased, then wrote fourteen into the lowest row. That didn't feel like the same message.
Would removing the ranking be an overreaction after introducing it so enthusiastically? I still want to make progress visible, but I don't want to replace this with another display that quietly identifies the same children as the bottom group.