Mr. Taylor follows a very basic lesson plan often referred to by educators as “I do, we do, you do.” He does a problem on the board. Then the whole class does another one the same way. Then all the kids do a problem on their own. During the “we” portion of the lesson, Mr. Taylor calls on students to help solve the problem. But he does this using the “equity sticks”—a can of clothespins, each of which has a student’s name on it. That way, he ensures a random sample. The shy ones don’t get lost.
So many great bits in this article. It had never occurred to me before how hand-raising in a classroom leaves so many students at a disadvantage.
We had an equivalent of equity sticks in b-school: an Excel model that randomly chose a student to answer a question. We hated it, but it DID force us to prepare harder.
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