Digital Badge #8

There are some teachers that think if you give your classes too many tests & quizzes, that your students will become overworked and overloaded with information. Which will lead to them failing the class. There are also some teachers who think that if you don't give your classes tests & quizzes too much then they won't learn anything. The trick is, to find that right amount of tests and quizzes. I believe that the best way for any teacher to start the semester at the beginning of the academic year, is to give them a practice assessment, this way you know what they know, what they don't know and what they need help remembering. That particular strategy is best suited for math, history and Science.

Another great way to figure out a student’s strengths and weaknesses, is to have peer reviews & group assignments throughout the semester. Mostly because the students will choose the parts of the assignment that they are best at; one student may choose to do the research, or work on the problem. One student may have good handwriting which would make them the one to write out everything, and one or more students (depending on the size of the groups in question) may be good at designing which would be perfect to figure out the layout of their presentation so that it all comes together. This is also a good way to evaluate every students contributions and how much work they’re willing to put into their assignments & homework.

The idea of using clickers in a classroom is actually quite genius when you think about it. This helps you keep track of which student has been paying attention in class, as well as which student is actually in class, which sort of makes it a high-tech tool for taking attendance. I myself have experience with using clickers. In my senior year of high school, my Administrative Office Tech teacher as well as my American Government teacher used the clickers when it came time for our chapter quizzes and section unit assessments. While confusing the first time around, clickers will eventually become 2^nd nature to students that use them, no matter which class they are taking that makes use of them.