OK, here's the idea: students are supposed to understand that they need to study new information they get in class. In middle school as teachers we had to tell our students to go home and study or to read over their class notes. Somehow that concept has not been fully in-grained into many students behavioral patterns. I am finding that it is not a common practise by high school students. No one seems to just study anymore!!!
I know I have told many a middle school class to go home and study their notes. I can even here other teachers saying to their students, your homework tonight is to study your notes!!
How do I know this is not happening? Well, I have asked them. So, my new mission to to try to get at least my students into the concept of studying! Wish me luck!
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somehow i think you're not going to have much luck with that. You need evidence that they studied, make them take notes and show you their notes.
If their isnt anything they need to pass into you.. their isnt anything they HAVE to do because studying isnt for a grade.
Me thinks that this is why great God almighty invented the pop-quiz. A good pop quiz a week (mixing up the days, "surprise, my angels!!")will not only let you know who is putting in the effort, it will reinforce in the student that studying your notes is, indeed, for a grade. Collecting their notebooks at the end of the term also forces them to review as they "clean them up". Dear God I hated high school!!
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