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21 thoughts on “Question about Quick Quizzes”
Yes, me too. Absent students are exempt from quick quizzes, Interpersonal Communication Skills rubric evaluation, and in-class work that I collect for a grade.
Ditto for me
Ditto again.
Me, too. It looks like a lot of us take this easy/compassionate route.
I have students who are chronically absent so I try to have other CI tasks that they can do to make up work. One idea I have that I haven’t implemented yet is that for every day they are absent they have to spend 15 or 20 minutes at Spanish lunch table, which will pretty much be me doing circling with them…or silent reading during lunch or after school.
I need to eat during lunch 🙂 Do you have any other suggestions for makeup CI. I like the silent reading idea.
When I started in 2004-05, I followed Blaine’s suggestion for pop-quizzes: next pop-quiz counts double. I always tried to give pop-quizzes on the days that everyone was present, although that was not always possible. I especially tried to pop a quiz when someone absent the previous quiz was present, so as to not have two missing grades in a row. When I started doing quick quizzes in January I followed the same procedure. (I had not considered the idea of just leaving a blank until just recently.)
Since then I am realizing that, having been out of touch for a while, I am not sure if any of the nitty-gritty stuff still being practiced. I was thinking of pop-quizzes in particular here. They were based on a running list of vocab/structures that students keep in a binder section.
Regarding excused vs unexcused absences, my school 1. considers it unexcused except for field trips. We have 12 days allowable per semester to allow for legitimate reasons, but the computer designation is “unexcused.” I would not be able to assign a zero for a parent-authorized absence. Skipping without the parents’ consent would result in a zero. So I do like the idea of leaving it blank for the quick quiz. I cannot redo the class for them.
I have kids translate readings from something like Blaine’s LITC (I just photocopy a bunch of different ones and have them ready at all times), and the extended reading of it too, so front/back. I have them translate right underneath the words. If they turn that in and complete it to my satisfaction, I exempt them from the quiz grade that day (doesn’t help or hurt their grade).
For Interpersonal, I don’t hold it against them if it’s excused.
I really like this idea.
If I know a student is going to be gone for several days in a row I usually have them choose a reader from my mini library and assign so many hours to read for time missed. Then they come in and I can ask them questions in Spanish about what they read.
Nice idea – now that I have some readers I might do this!
(readers meaning short books)
yes. Pobre Ana, Casi se muere, Los Ojos de Carmen etc… I am about to buy more. One site that I am going to use is tidayink.blogspot.com. There are some good readers. Of course I will buy from blaineraytprs.com and tprstorytelling.com. If you know of any other sites I would love to look them over.
I went to my school library that is digital now and they gave me the old pocket pieces that go in the back of the books and the cards for check out. If a student wants to check out a book they fill out the card and turn it into me. When they return the book I check it off and put the card back in there. It is an easy way to remember who has what book.
Hi Melissa,
There are (it seems to me, teaching Chinese) a lot of books out there for Spanish & French, and quite a few for German. There was discussion & review of several in here some time ago — someone will maybe find it and post the link?
Other languages, we look harder. I just wrote a blog about some beginner-level readers in Chinese at the blog I contribute to. (If someone clicks my name in the comment here, I think you go to the link.)
That makes sense. It must be difficult to create a comprehensible library in Chinese without a lot of books written at the correct level. As CI continues to grow hopefully more readers for Chinese will become available.
melissa
I love this idea Melissa, for my level 2 and ups. Unfortunately, most of the kids who miss days in my classes are first year and likely don’t have the skills yet to read even the easiest of readers. That’s why I utilize the LICT-type easy stories for this. Whatever we do, it must be easy on us!
Yeah, I try to make it as easy on myself as possible when a student expresses interest in “making-up” work. I tell them to come after school and I’ll often ask them to just sit and read quietly (reading whatever text is available).
Love it!
I have a notebook where I write down all my 5 sentence quick quizzes for each class. If a student misses one, they have to come and translate the five sentences to English.
Smart idea! I should probably be that organized. 🙂
I log mine on a GoogleDoc that is available to the public. Very “techy” and if there any questions/concerns I can say, “These have been public all year…”
Great idea! I am going to steal it and put it in my “robbers” notebook 🙂
Thanks!