I can either be teacher or "cop", not both. Alfie Kohn points out that one major flaw with a system of rewards and punishments is that if it's to be enforced, you have to be vigilant. That cuts into my teaching time. If I have one student with a legitimate question and one student speaking his mother tongue instead of English, I don't want to be diving my attention.
Fortunately, an idea a friend gave me a long time ago got buried in my subconcious and finally resurfaced the other day.
I have a little doll that's supoosed to look like Slash, the rock guitarist (a long-time crush of mine). If I hear someone speaking Spanish, I simply put Slash on that student's desk. Then I step back. If that student hears someone else speak Spanish, he gives the doll to her. Whoever has Slash at the end of the period loses a point off their final grade.
Now I don't have to be cop.
Of, course, they're now policing each other, and as we all saw in the Harry Potter stories, that's not exactly a sweet thing either...
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