Monte Carlo Quiz 1

30 August 2022

"As you think about planning and implementing instruction during your field experiences (which occur within educational environments very much focused on standardized test scores),  where might you see the possibilities of incorporating a student-centered approach?"

This isn’t an idea that has occurred to me until very recently, but I do like the idea of giving students more of a choice. Not necessarily to take a test or not, but to take a test more geared towards certain things. I hope to eventually generate three different types of tests with various approaches to test-taking. Maybe some with more multiple choice, some with more matching, and some with more short answers. Obviously, each of these will have components of the others, but will still be heavy on others. At certain points, I will not allow students to make this choice, or I will make them pick an option that they don’t normally pick (I will keep this in mind while grading). 

Additionally, as an English major, I hope to give students more choices in the day-to-day classroom. I recently created an impromptu lesson plan for another class lasting only about fifteen minutes. This lesson plan can take two different routes based on the question I ask at the start of the class: “Do we want to talk about rocks or hills?” Both these topics are obviously related to their reading, but the options are just vague enough that they don’t know where I’m going with it while still providing a choice.