Does anyone else teach at a school with an unstructured study period? I am trying to formulate a plan to set up (optional) study groups during our daily 40 min tutorial period and wonder if anyone else has done something similar 🎢🍎
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I was at a school with a daily advisory period (30 min) where students could choose which class to go to (default advisory teacher but can get note to attend a different class). We did a form of standards based grading. The best use of this time was for students to practice/study for re-assessments.
There was a correlation in my AP1 students last year of procrastinating on homework and getting a 2 on the AP test. I don't have late penalties for most HW. Alternating blocks. I was thinking of setting up groups to work on the non-class days.
2/ kick out the non studiers. Some teacher only allow one day so kids have to go there but then can't come to you when you also need to see them. Some teachers no longer offer after school help because "you should come during study hall." Others kick kids and use it as extra prep time. 😒
I'm lucky that I have a quiet hallway behind my room where I can have students make up tests. My tutorial is usually pretty full, but what I want to do is encourage coming on the non-class days to work on problems with others.
Usually what happens is that if a class meets on the odd day on the 2nd or 3rd block, I see those students come to tutorial that day before class to get help. The students in the 1st block don't do that and that class has had a lower AP pass rate for the two years I've taught it.
We do but how it's implemented varied greatly. Kids can zone out and sleep, or play video games or talk with friends (good for mental health). Teachers can offer study sessions, lab or test make ups or tutoring. The trouble is if you want to do gest retakes or make ups it has to be quiet, so you 1/
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