Classroom Routines That Enhance Learning

Classroom Practices
I start every class with a PSAT practice problem. Every school has a standardized test that is important to them: ACT, end-of-course exam, SAT, etc. I teach at St. Mary’s Episcopal School, a high-academic all-girls school in Memphis, TN. We find that focusing on the PSAT during the student’s sophomore year helps prepare them for many of the standardized tests they will take. Some teachers never use multiple-choice questions when they teach, thinking that it doesn’t challenge their students as much as an open-ended question. Actually, there are a lot of advantages to asking multiple-choice questions in a class. There are a limited number of choices, and the wrong answers are intentionally meant to be distractors. If you are using a standardized test question, you can be assured that a…
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