September 28, 2012

• Pop. Quiz.

  Well...

  I wanted to make this massive generalization that my students can WRITE, but they struggle with reading & listening. (And I'm not talking about students who aren't at some reading level or who are deaf; I'm talking about students who choose to not take the time to read or students who have horrible selective hearing... I call it, at times, intellectual laziness. It's also linked to why they don't write down anything I say in class. I haven't decided if this is because they know I'll answer questions later or because they've never taken notes?) Anyhow, I gave out a pop quiz today that asked them to read the whole thing before beginning. And, shockingly, I think most of them DID JUST THAT. I am kind of amazed.

  So... when it comes down to a QUIZ, they'll pay attention more to the directions rather than when it's a project and they can just ask me a gazillion questions (that I've answered already or questions that are answered in the packet). I'm not a human Google.

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