At the community college I taught at they wanted the students o be on time to class. In order to motivate students to come to class on time I would implement a very short quiz on the last lecture’s material at the start of class. If the student did not show up on time they would not get to take the quiz and would miss out on some points. Missing lots of classes meant a serious drop in grade.

What happened was that the students actually started to pay attention in class and started studying because they didn’t want to get a bad quiz grade and they started showing up on time as well.

At the school where I teach, the rule is “tardy today, lunch detention tomorrow” We have off-campus lunch, so lunch d-hall is a pretty big punishment. If someone is tardy more than six times (total, not per class), they spend a day in ISS. We don’t have much of a problem with tardies after the first couple of weeks of school. Teachers like it because we don’t have to keep track of how many tardies each student has since each one gets punished.

I taught high school for a number of years…tardies were always a problem. The school I worked at had a policy of detention for 3 or more tardies. My classroom policy was 1 free one, and then 15 minute detention for each one (this was on top of any from the office). My detentions were not like the office ones–where the kids sat for however long—I assigned chores….washing my desks, cleaning my boards, stapling papers…anything I needed done. If the kids did not make up their tardies, I took a percentage point from their grade for each tardy they owed me. I would still have 1 or 2 kids every semester push their luck, but for the most part….everyone got there on time. 🙂 It’s not fun disinfecting desks….they’d rather have me do it. ha ha

I’m teacher of physics science and technical disciplines and and by my experience to avoid tardiness important is organisation of yours scholl clock (here in Croatia it is 45 minutes) and to adapt level of lesson you have to explain on mid range according the pupils knowledge. During the presentation you have to stress parts of lesson that are important for very good pupils and all other pupils must to know with understanding basics of this lesson. In example, when we talk about simple current circuit all pupils have to know parts of this circuit and purpose of each part but very good pupils have to know what is current and how this circuit working, about sources of current and types of current. Important is to avoid alot of details. Veradisca & Best Regards, Neven.