{"id":2192,"date":"2011-08-14T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2011-08-14T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T18:58:15","slug":"letting-students-leave-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/08\/14\/letting-students-leave-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting Students Leave Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.ucsb.edu\/%7Elzirbel\/\">Laura Zirbel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summer session is challenging here at UCSB. Students take summer classes for one of two reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are responsible and are foregoing the beach and video games to get ahead in their studies, or<\/li>\n<li>They failed the class, and need to make it up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This creates a problematic situation. Part of the class is really ahead, and part of the class is holding on for dear life. In the past, I taught to the middle. This was still too slow for some and too fast for others. This summer I did something in discussion section I&#8217;ve never done before.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don&#8217;t need help with homework 2 or 3, feel free to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The response was very positive. Students who didn&#8217;t need help would leave after the quiz. The remaining students had committed to being there. They asked and answered more questions, and seemed less timid about asking \u201cstupid questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have a worry about this. There were at least 2 students who needed to stay. From their quizzes, I could tell they had fundamental misconceptions. Yet they left. I wasn&#8217;t going to call them out. So the question I have is this: do the benefits outweigh the cost to these two students. Should they be allowed to hang themselves?<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone else done this?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Laura Zirbel Summer session is challenging here at UCSB. Students take summer classes for one of two reasons: They are responsible and are foregoing the beach and video games to get ahead in their studies, or They failed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/08\/14\/letting-students-leave-discussion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/08\/14\/letting-students-leave-discussion\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-zm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}