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[quote=Anonymous][quote]thanks for recognizing that you all could be doing it all wrong. Since there are SO many check-in, exit tickets, tests, and assessments, (not to mention POG, SEL, useless stuff, there is less time across 180 days for instruction now a days. As you mentioned, teaching and the whole philosophy has changed. Learning in bulk in quarters 2 and 3 has occurred which is cramming the material and not allowing adequate time for students to practice and (gulp) even memorize some facts, this leads to a bunch of re-learning and re-takes.[/quote]

I mean, with block schedule an exit ticket a day is the equivalent of a 1 question check in every/other day, which doesn't seem excessive?  Don't you want the teachers to know your kid is struggling before they take the quiz?  Or would you rather have a unit test every 3 weeks only?

Personally, I think the real issue is block scheduling (with math at least).  45 minutes a day would allow for the lesson to be one day and the second day (after the brain has processed the info) to be practice.  Or to split the topic into tiny, manageable pieces instead of fitting 2-3 standards into a single block. 
 Latent learning is a thing!  As it is now, it's all crammed into 1 day and then 48 hours later it's a brand new topic.[/quote]

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