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Academic Contracts

Academic contracts are written agreements between teachers and students in grades 1-12 that outline specific academic tasks students agree to complete independently within a set timeframe. They are used to motivate and help students stay organized when struggling in certain academic areas. The contracts are signed by the student, teacher, and optionally parents. They involve determining learning objectives based on student needs, choosing resources and activities, setting completion dates and assessments. Examples provided are templates for goals, middle/high school, and elementary school contracts.

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Academic Contracts

Academic contracts are written agreements between teachers and students in grades 1-12 that outline specific academic tasks students agree to complete independently within a set timeframe. They are used to motivate and help students stay organized when struggling in certain academic areas. The contracts are signed by the student, teacher, and optionally parents. They involve determining learning objectives based on student needs, choosing resources and activities, setting completion dates and assessments. Examples provided are templates for goals, middle/high school, and elementary school contracts.

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ACADEMIC CONTRACTS

Definition: Population:
A written agreement Academic Contracts are used
between teacher and for ALL students in grades 1st-
student in which the 12th and ELL students.
student undertakes to
complete mutually
agreed upon tasks in
a specified amount of Rationale:
time on his or her own
initiative. When students are
This contract is signed by having difficulty
the student, the performing certain
instructor, and academic tasks,
(optionally) the parent. Academic Contracts seek
to motivate students on
completing their goals.
This helps students to
stay organized and
focused on their goals.
Procedures: Examples :
1. Example 1 is a list of how goals that the student will
1. Determine learning complete are written depending on specific goal, there can
be more than one.
objectives based on 2. Examples 2&3 both are templates used in middle and high
school.
student learning needs 3. Example 4 is a Elementary School tylred template, it is
2. Choose learning resources simpler than 2&3 but still highlights the main objectives
and goals.
and activities
3. Select learning products
that will demonstrate
learning
4. Set completion dates
5. Determine assessment
strategies
6. Review, revise and
implement the contract

Procedures can look and be different for


example:
1.Statement of Purpose
2. Student Actions
3. Teacher Actions Citations
Developing Learner Autonomy in the ESL Classroom Through the Use of Learning Contracts.
4. Sign Off (2011). Pertanika Journal of
Social Sciences & Humanities, 19(1), 217–232.
Students will meet with teachers x times a
week depending on the agreement to Greenwood, S. C., & McCabe, P. P. (2008). How Learning Contracts Motivate Students. Middle
School Journal, 39(5), 13–22.
check on progress. Grünke, M. (2019). The Effects of Contingency Contracts on the Correct Use of Punctuation
Marks in Elementary Students with Learning Disabilities. Insights into Learning Disabilities,
16(1), 47–57.
Lassman, K. A., Jolivette, K., & Wehby, J. H. (1999). “My teacher said I did good work today!”
Using collaborative behavioral contracting. Teaching Exceptional Children, 31(4), 12–18.

Martin, J. E., Mithaug, D. E., & Cox, P. (2003). Increasing Self-Determination: Teaching Students
to Plan, Work, Evaluate, and Adjust. Exceptional Children, 69(4), 431–446.

Rubaii-Barrett, N. (2006). Teaching Courses on Managing Diversity: Using Learning Contracts to


Address Challenges and Model Behavior. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 12(3), 361–383.

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