{"id":680,"date":"2010-02-14T14:27:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T19:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2010-02-14T14:27:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T19:27:20","slug":"i-love-you-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/14\/i-love-you-too\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love You, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One teaching practice I put into place after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=594\">that article that pissed me off<\/a> was to check for understanding more frequently and broadly.\u00a0 The way I do this is, sometimes, I ask a question and reach into a can with all the kids&#8217; names on popsicle sticks.\u00a0 The student whose name is drawn has to attempt to answer the question, AND the stick goes right back in, so the kid is equally likely to be called on again.\u00a0 (I&#8217;m not a hard-ass.\u00a0 If they don&#8217;t know the answer, I acknowledge some part of their response that has value.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t do it all the time&#8212;just after I&#8217;ve taught a lesson, before independent practice, when I want to make sure they got the concept.)<\/p>\n<p>This practice has made me realize exactly how much stuff my students are not getting.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a lot.\u00a0 What an eye-opener for me.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Friday, amidst my plethora of valentines, I got this one from <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=588\">Chang-sun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Valentine-Siyeon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-681\" title=\"Valentine-Siyeon\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Valentine-Siyeon-e1266174751671-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Valentine-Siyeon-e1266174751671-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Valentine-Siyeon-e1266174751671-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Valentine-Siyeon-e1266174751671.jpg 1584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ms. Scott, can you please read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MY<\/span> name on the stick even if it is not mine?\u00a0 Because I really want to announce some of the answers in the math time.\u00a0 Oh, and happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!\u00a0 I hope you have a great Valentine&#8217;s Day with your family.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One teaching practice I put into place after reading that article that pissed me off was to check for understanding more frequently and broadly.\u00a0 The way I do this is, sometimes, I ask a question and reach into a can with all the kids&#8217; names on popsicle sticks.\u00a0 The student whose name is drawn has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/14\/i-love-you-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Love You, Too<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}