My CT wasn’t there today so Microeconomics was interesting. I found out the night before that he would not be there so I did not have time to learn any of the material so that I could answer their questions. These are good kids though, so it went fine and they explained a lot of stuff to each other.
I am not really happy with the grade sheet that is currently used for this simulation. The categories are very vague and confusing and I think that they need more structure. I have not had a chance to redo it, but I think that I want to use my CT’s grade sheet this time, so as the simulation progresses I can figure out exactly what I don’t like about it. The categories that the students are being graded on for committee work is fine (focus, comments, present). However, the categories for floor work are not so easily understood (talking, focus, comments, placard, and head down). I would assume that talking and comments are the same thing, but apparently talking means that they are not talking out of turn or to their neighbors, and comments means that they are participating in the floor discussion in a positive manner. I think that needs to be clarified more. Also, just stating placards is not very clear; it should state that students get a point if their placard is up. Finally, as I understand the statement head down it seems that students would get a point if their head was down, which seems counter intuitive. It just seems that some of these things could be clarified or combined; my job at the end of this unit will be to figure out how the rubrics should change to assess what I want.
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