11/17-quizzes

I did not realize how long it has been since I had last done this. I guess that I have been fighting through the last couple of weeks, looking for a break. It has gotten a bit chaotic and it seems to have caught up to me recently. I did try something new in class yesterday. It seemed to me that students have been struggling and going through the mations of being students and not trying to learn anything, especially my freshmen. I decided to give them a little quiz over what we have been talking about in class. The worked with partners and I had one student who struggled more thoughout the semester get out a piece of paper and a pencil. Their patner was a student who has been doing better throughout the year could not write during the quiz but had to help talk through the problem with the pair. Many of the students responded that this method of testing did cause them to talk more but others were upset that they could not just take control and write out the answers. Maybe it was a little more frustrating for some, but others loved the fact that they did not have to write. It seemed to accomplish the goal which was to get them talking about how to solve the problems, now I am interested to seem how they performed.