{"id":585,"date":"2014-10-11T13:49:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2014-10-11T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:49:10","slug":"student-workload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/student-workload\/","title":{"rendered":"Student workload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an interesting account of what life is like for high school students. <a href=\"http:\/\/grantwiggins.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/10\/a-veteran-teacher-turned-coach-shadows-2-students-for-2-days-a-sobering-lesson-learned\/\">An adult <em>shadowed<\/em> a student for a whole day, going to class, taking exams, sitting all day, etc.<\/a> The article is definitely worth a read for anyone in ed.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the idea of structuring lessons starting from students questions. It wouldn&#8217;t work for 1-on-1 tutoring (a student may have only unknown unknowns) but collectively as a class, the set of all known unknowns probably covers a lot material that would make sense to cover in the current class.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea. Rather than writing advanced software that &#8220;measures&#8221; the student&#8217;s level of understanding and schedules appropriate material for them, why not let students tell you what they do or do not know, and&#8212;more importantly&#8212;what they would like to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Update Oct 19: Grant posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/grantwiggins.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/19\/a-ps-to-the-guest-post-on-shadowing-hs-students-and-the-author-revealed\/\">followup post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an interesting account of what life is like for high school students. An adult shadowed a student for a whole day, going to class, taking exams, sitting all day, etc. The article is definitely worth a read for anyone in ed. I liked the idea of structuring lessons starting from students questions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minireference.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}