This session was presented by teachers who allow re-dos, retesting, and re-quizzing. I found this to be very interesting and tried to decide if I agreed with this philosophy or not. On one hand I feel mastery learning is definitely a good thing. However, How do you motivate students to do they're best on the first try? Does this create a lot of extra work for the teacher? Maybe a system where the students get two grades would work? One grade for what they earned on the first try and another grade for whether or not they mastered the material. All in all, this was an interesting session that could be interesting to talk about in the future.
I attended a short Speed Learning Session with Vicki Meigs-Kahlenberg and enjoyed it so much that I ended up purchasing her book The Author's Apprentice . Essentially, Vicki's session was on not letting narrative writing fall by the wayside in the world of high-stakes testing. She talked about teaching students to develop their writing voices by studying the works and process of popular young adult authors such as Kwame Alexander, Jacqueline Woodson, Jason Reynolds, and Lois Lowry. I have always been interested in using mentor texts to teach students writing strategies such as "Show, Don't Tell" and dialogue that develops characters, but I felt like Vicki's process takes this one step further because she has students research the actual authors and learn about their lives and writing processes. There is no one correct way to write. Every author plans, drafts, and revises differently, and I think sharing this with students makes the whole writing process seem m...
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