If I were currently teaching honors students I would also be less skeptical. My district persistently pushes its honors and AP offerings in a way that leads to an evaporative cooling of work ethic in the lower classes. I think I only had a handful of students using Anki on their own because pretty much everyone with enough ambition to have been persuaded by me was in honors.
Not seeing the benefits of what I do in the classroom goes with the territory. I do plan to give the presentation again when we start back up in a few weeks.
In my high school career, I took precisely one non-honors/AP course when alternatives were present. Recalling my classmates… yeah, I’m now as skeptical as you are.
(I had successfully repressed those memories until now. Thanks so much for the reminder ;)
Any chance your success might influence your colleagues?
There is talk of me giving some training on it, yes.
Teachers are so different from each other, though, and we easily become set in our ways. I’ll count myself lucky for getting even a few to try it, and some of those may be doomed to fail because of their very different styles.
That said, the foreign language department, at least, should have a way easier time capitalizing on SRS than I did. I’ll try to give them some extra attention.
If I were currently teaching honors students I would also be less skeptical. My district persistently pushes its honors and AP offerings in a way that leads to an evaporative cooling of work ethic in the lower classes. I think I only had a handful of students using Anki on their own because pretty much everyone with enough ambition to have been persuaded by me was in honors.
Not seeing the benefits of what I do in the classroom goes with the territory. I do plan to give the presentation again when we start back up in a few weeks.
In my high school career, I took precisely one non-honors/AP course when alternatives were present. Recalling my classmates… yeah, I’m now as skeptical as you are.
(I had successfully repressed those memories until now. Thanks so much for the reminder ;)
Any chance your success might influence your colleagues?
There is talk of me giving some training on it, yes.
Teachers are so different from each other, though, and we easily become set in our ways. I’ll count myself lucky for getting even a few to try it, and some of those may be doomed to fail because of their very different styles.
That said, the foreign language department, at least, should have a way easier time capitalizing on SRS than I did. I’ll try to give them some extra attention.