Exit Card - January 28, 2012

Exit cards are a type of quick little assessment tool teachers can use to check how a lesson went with their class. Pass out index cards, ask a short question, and give students a few minutes to answer at the end of class, collect as they leave. I want to do a week-in-review type post each week, but I don't want to call them Week-in-Review. So, I'll call them Exit Cards.

I learned a few things on the train home from New York with my kids. Lesson one: don't sit near other people's kids. Your kids will want to play like it's recess at school. Lesson two: don't sit at the ends of the car. The fumes will make you sick, especially if you're the kind of person who gets seasick on the dock. Lesson two-A: don't sit in a four-seater with your kids. They will be able to see you, and thus they will forget how to do anything for themselves, like get things from their backpacks, or open food wrappers, or turn book pages.

I learned that the school system has more time to address teachers' concerns about the proposed middle school reforms.

I learned that I don't learn a whole lot when I have a cold. Instead, I just feel like a big 'ol drippy nose. So, that's all I got.

What did you do this week? See, hear or do anything interesting?

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