What's middle school like...after coming back from remote learning? Well let me tell you...it's different. (If you were reading this with standardized test eyes, that's the thesis statement. Just didn't want you to miss it.) The rest of the blog will explain "different."
Friday, February 24, 2017
What have we done?
This snapshot--indicating the participation thus far in class surveys I am running--is part of a story about what strange things we've developed in youngsters.
I created a survey--one for each class period--to ask students about their sense of readiness and capability for the SBAC, the annual standardized test. I emailed to both students and parents to ask that the students do the survey, and I included a link right to the survey appropriate to their class period.
Over night, I got 9 responses from the first group--which now has 15, 2 from the second, which now has 7, 1 from the third, and none from the fourth and fifth.
12 total responses, out of 115 students.
When I told the class that had 9 (out of 25) that they had done the best, one student exclaimed, "Can we have a pizza party?"
I was despairing already--about how badly they'd done with their Parts of Speech work, so I slipped. And my response was, "You know how many pizza parties we had when I was a student..? NONE!"
A pizza party!? Because barely 1/3 of the students had taken a 2-minute quiz...and they just happened to outperform the other 4 classes!?
Years ago, I asked what consequence the Wow! Effect of things like letter learning with singing birds on iPads would have. I wonder if pizza parties for answering a 7-question survey is the answer.
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