Points to make clear to the quiz writer regarding her job: She is to provide 12 questions for a 10-point quiz –or 6 questions for a 5-point quiz – in case one or two of the questions “don’t work”. During the Create phase, the quiz writer works closely with the storywriter to keep facts straight.
What would a quick quiz on the content of the Henry tableau look like? Below is an example. Notice how easy the questions are to answer.The quiz is written, obviously, in English. You translate the questions into the target language when you ask them. Possible questions from our text for the quiz: Does Henry play
The best way to find articles here (as of today there are 8,000 articles and 56,000 comments going back to 2004) is to use the search bar. So if you’re trying to track down any topic that may come up during your teaching week, use that first and check in the categories second. It’s more
The Quick Quiz Process Here is a step-by-step explanation of the quick quiz process: A student distributes quarter panels of paper and pencils. The quiz writer hands the quiz to me, at any moment during class. The quiz writer has prepared the quiz in a yes/no format. This does a greater job of guaranteeing student
Phonemic play is when you say the word in all sorts of different semi-histrionic ways, paying attention and riffing on the sound of each phoneme in different ways. If the word “grape” comes up as the object chosen for a one word image, for example, play with it before starting the image, after writing it
Alisa and others in on the SEL thread, I’ll start a category for it. It sure doesn’t feel new to me. I started my career with Jeanne Gibbs’ books: https://tribes.com/store-item-type/tribes-books/ That was in the late 1970s and I still have my old tattered copy of her first book. I used to use to some of
We have never in all these years here discussed the deleterious nature of grading on our work. We just accepted it. I suggest that we rethink that position of acceptance. Knowing the nature of how people acquire languages – because we have actually studied the research – we should have fought for its implementation in
I first offered the idea of quick quizzes to the TPRS community in or around 2002. They have proven themselves a winner in many ways. In this next series of six posts on quick quizzes, taken from my latest book on the Invisibles, I expand on earlier writings about this important assessment tool in order
Ben Lev this post might interest you since you are just getting to know a new class tomorrow. Also Craig your classes may enjoy this. This is information that builds bridges with students: Sometimes, right about this time of year, kids start to think that you don’t like them. But it’s never that simple. Consider:
OK I can’t find the old inventory I used. I liked it so much. If anyone who does this in their classrooms this week can find one with numbers around 30 for each category, please share it. Or share any simple inventory that you find. And also maybe test this one I just found online:
This second post is from 2015: Today since it is October – and I do this activity for a few days every October – I didn’t teach and broke out a learning styles inventory. The inventory is simple and thus perfect for a group of kids. When I try to guess their three numbers (I
In past years I wrote two posts on on the topic of using a Learning Styles Inventory. This first repost is from 2011. It could be very useful for some of us right now in October, when we have to haul out the heavy artillery with certain students. What better way to manage a classroom
