My students had a test a few days ago covering their comprehension of the story of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. One of my all time favorite stories and a heck of a good cartoon, if I do say so myself. Since I also teach Language Arts as well as messing mathematicly with the minds of youngsters, we had read the story... and watched the cartoon. Because using the tv is still the best way to get some down time from dealing with a room full of over diagnosed and under medicated kids. (The kids laughed when I screamed from the back of the room "Don't go in the cobra hole, Rikki!!! Seriously, don't they know he might not come out?)Anyway, after our week of study, the class got the test. I was good and used Bloom's Taxonomy of educational objectives. I covered all the key points and vocabulary for the first level of knowledge, then moved on to the deeper cognative understanding questions. The last question asked the students to pick the best of two answers, then explain why they DID NOT chose the other. It was ment to be a short answer response. This is what I got:
"Duh, that other one sucked"
Yeah, it's hard to argue with logic like that. (Just like he is not going to be able to argue with the "F" he earned on the test.)
1 comment:
You didnt pose the question succinctly enough to elicit a longer response.
Why the F?
LOL
Teaching over analyzed under medicated kids is like when i was in catholic School. We were as catatonic as yours, but we had fear instead of prozac.
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