We have all lived through classes where our teacher/professor lectured on and on and we wrote notes until our hands fell off, right? (Confession: I may have even been that teacher some days) Then following these epic lectures, we had to go home and teach ourselves the content that we missed while doing all that […]
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How to Know What They Know: Using Student Response Cards
We all know the sinking feeling that comes when you’re grading student work and realize that they don’t really understand the topic you just finished. You wonder how this could have happened. You did all the things. There were labs and hands-on activities and fancy notes pages and a gorgeous set of slides to help […]
The Challenge of Helping A Struggling Student Find Success
“See, I told y’all I was smart!” This was what I heard Javier telling his group as I walked away from them. He was beaming, and to be honest, so was I. To give a little background, Javier was one of my least academically motivated students. He was a special education student for whom English […]