I am just so satisfied with the Quick Quiz concept. Quick Quizzes are more than just assessment tools – they are a necessary “glue” for classroom management. How? Because they are so simple, they offer the students an easy grade if they but listen. As soon as the student figures that out, they cease to act out because they are busy focusing. This is a huge classroom management tool in that sense.
Beyond that, I just like watching my kids do them. And I tell them so. Nothing motivates like success, right? “How cool is it,” I say in those last 30 seconds of class, “that at the beginning of the hour these words were new but now almost the entire class was able to understand and answer these questions without even having to look at the board! Way to go, gang!”