Surviving January – 7
Quick quizzes are easy, short, true/false questions (five or ten or however many you want). If you are pressed for time ask five and double the score. The questions are written during the story by your quiz writer. Don't forget to
Surviving January – 6
It's always a good thing to focus on your storytelling skills, image building skills (all those things described in ANATS and applied in ANATTY) but in my opinion that is something you work on most intently in the fall. Now
Quick Quizzes – 6
When we give our students a reason to be happy in our classrooms, instead of placing them somewhere on an arbitrary scale of how “good” they are at the language compared to other students, we do it right. We place
Quick Quizzes – 5
When teachers don’t assess their students, even if doing so diminishes the amount of instructional time available to the students, administrators are not happy. Indeed, assessment seems to be the major goal of education, even though in languages it is
Quick Quizzes – 4
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
Quick Quizzes – 3
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
Quick Quizzes – 2
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
Quick Quizzes – 1
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
Question on Quick Quizzes
Q. I was looking at one of your books that talked about a daily quick quiz. Can you tell me what you do for absent students to make up the quiz that is easy to manage? A. Thanks for your
Quiz Writer
For those using a quiz writer, Ben Lev came up with a nice little set of instructions for that student. Here they are for those interested: Querido/a Quiz Writer, ¡Gracias por escribir el examen pequeño! • 1. Please write 10 statements in Spanish