First day back from Thanksgiving vacation and I was counting the days until the next vacation on the way to school this morning.
I passed out study guides for bimester exams today (as admin wished). The exams are in 2 weeks. The students looked at the study guides with a funny little expression of 'I know I will lose this before I ever think about looking at it again'. I'll go over it again at the end of next week when some of the students will start getting organized to review for the exam. I should start a scheduled review of some of the material and build on the information they know and what they find difficult based on ideas in my blog "Super Memo and the Question of What to Learn" (Oct. 26), but there is still a good bit to cover that is in the curriculum and on the exam (which has to be turned in this week). There is, also, pressure to make the exams longer. The goal being to keep the kids occupied for the full 2 hours of the exam. The reality of course is it means there is more to forget and a greater probability they will forget more.
Three weeks til Christmas and half way through my last year of this madness which is considered 'education'.
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