an experiment in progress
http://media.nwic.edu/system/files/private/math/video/matteo_parallel_m102.mp4This is my math 102 class, but the material is obviously relevant to what we do in math 98/99.
What you are seeing is mostly an experiment that Cassandra and i are conducting with respect to homework. In teh past, we would devote the first fifteen minutes of class to answering questions from the homework, a practice whose effectiveness as an instructional strategy we have been questioning. Now we have changed what we do, and we instead ask a question (from the homework, or homework-like) to the whole class at the beginning of class, and ask the students to fill it out on a index card and pass it back so that we can process it together. Cassandra uses it for attendance. I give a point for extra credit on the previous night’s homework assignment. It has helped with tardiness, (though not 100% in my class, as you can see).
at one point i give the students some slips of paper to work on. it’s copies of this:
As part of the observation, i would love it if you used a modified version of the form that we practiced on in September.