Timeline for What is a method you use to handle the students who thinks they "know it all"?
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| Sep 21, 2014 at 10:24 | history | edited | quid |
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| May 31, 2014 at 17:13 | answer | added | user507 | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 31, 2014 at 2:54 | answer | added | jpm | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 22:33 | comment | added | Wayne | While I like the idea of class participation, I think it's overrated and it has set up your current lose-lose situation. A student you wish would skip class (because of his attitude), and who wants to skip class (because he thinks he's so smart) can't skip class because it would mean he doesn't get an A. Besides, "class participation", in general, rewards one personality/learning style and penalizes others. | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 22:10 | vote | accept | Todd Thomas | ||
| Mar 28, 2014 at 15:22 | answer | added | Andreas Blass | timeline score: 20 | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 22:06 | answer | added | vonbrand | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 15:45 | comment | added | Todd Thomas | I try to ask 5 basic questions after each topic I teach to make sure that students have understood what I have just taught. If I see that 10% or more of the class got the wrong answer, then I will revisit the material right then. This counts as participation points in their overall grade, but I don't use it take attendance, I use it to make sure a majority of the class has a basic understanding of the material. | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 14:44 | comment | added | Chris Cunningham | @Todd I'm curious about your comment. Could you elaborate? I would interpret your clicker policy as a way to require students to attend your lecture, but it sounds like you do not think of it that way. | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 14:02 | answer | added | Andrej Bauer | timeline score: 21 | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 13:22 | comment | added | Todd Thomas | No, I do not require them to attend my lecture, however I do give "clicker quizzes" in class that count as 10% of their grade and they do not know when I will give them. Believe me I would love to tell him not to come to class then. | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 13:18 | comment | added | Roland | Is attendance of your lecture compulsory? How much time can you set aside to discuss these 'better ways'? Is there the potential from learning why these ways may not be better? If the students have explanations, is there the room and time to ask the students for explanations first, and then add relevant facts yourself? | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 13:05 | history | asked | Todd Thomas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |