Grrrr. I'm not surprised, but injustice in teacher-kid relationships makes me So Mad. There's a serious power dynamic here, and that means the adults at the AMC face a much higher imperative to be fair.
Oh man, assessment. I have spreadsheets, and graphs, and am part of a slow school culture change that will hopefully start catching students who are behind sooner. I actually worry about this, because it does work in opposition to exploratory math work, and it's hard to protect the exploration time.
I would love to meet AT if she's around this summer :) I did something very similar to her weekly non-tests with my students last semester; we had little check-in quizzes at the beginning of every single class. (With most classes that frequency isn't necessary, but with that particular class, I really had to worry about whether they understood a topic that I'd taught them the day before.)
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Date: 2025-05-14 01:29 am (UTC)Oh man, assessment. I have spreadsheets, and graphs, and am part of a slow school culture change that will hopefully start catching students who are behind sooner. I actually worry about this, because it does work in opposition to exploratory math work, and it's hard to protect the exploration time.
I would love to meet AT if she's around this summer :) I did something very similar to her weekly non-tests with my students last semester; we had little check-in quizzes at the beginning of every single class. (With most classes that frequency isn't necessary, but with that particular class, I really had to worry about whether they understood a topic that I'd taught them the day before.)