Sunday, October 19, 2014
as a student who needs you
This past week seemed like alot tbh. But all we did was review. Just seems like you hand us a packet everyday and during class it feels like we go through one warm up problem for like the first 45 mins of the class. I feel like your teaching is kinda reversed. Like you give us a hard problem as warm up and kinda basic ones on the homework. Challenge us more on the hmwrk and instead of going straight to hard problems in the beginning of class maybe thats when you want to hit the basics of the "sorta hard" like level 2 problems. Also i feel like your dragging your teaching out too much, for example,explaining things for too long! Im not saying dont explain at all, but maybe keep things basic and not so hard to comprehend maybe? A reason for that would be near the last part of class ... our "alone" time of working, YOU should want that to be longer than 15 mins, maybe 30 mins! So we can try to solve problems and ask you (in person) questions and maybe some of our peers could speak in on some strategies. Just the way you use your time of teaching might be more efficient. Im probably not speaking on behalf of the class but Im just speaking my mind. I just rather have more time at the end of class to work on problems and be able to ask you questions without having little time near the end and possibly coming in after or before school. And maybe more brief, efficient explaining on your part?
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I agree. A lot of the warm-up problems should take no longer than 5 minutes, even if they are the more challenging problems. We will make sure to speed these up in the next unit. I appreciate your honestly about the efficiency of my teaching. I will try to do a better job balancing the time for questions on homework and time for work in class. With the different abilities represented in class, it has been difficult to get in a nice flow on a daily basis. I'm not sure if 30 minutes on homework will happen, but thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely make sure to make more questions challenging during the homework. I tried on the packet "Quadratic Functions" and I got some major complaints about them being too hard. It's a work in progress! Thanks for keeping me on my toes and keep working hard!
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