Contributed by: Educator on 5/10/2015
I found this to be a very eye-opening article. As I read the article there were many points discussed I felt guilty because I had used them. One of the points that stand out for me was, I had been giving a pre-test before each skill I taught; but I never thought about giving the whole year’s test. I will implement this idea to check for understanding. Another thought I liked was to accelerate the students learning by putting them in a higher grade’s learning on the skill. I think many teachers feel that if the students learn a higher grade’s skill, what they will learn the next year. I see that I need to work on getting out of the box more often, thanks to this article. I thought the Individual instruction plan menu was very helpful to help me think of other ideas to accelerate the students’ learning. There were so many great ideas in all areas of learning. The article has helped me to research activities that will broaden students thinking in all areas. The article gave me many activities ideas I could use to challenge the students.