I’m all for making sure every kid in my classroom feels confident enough to participate in class discussions, activities etc… HOWEVER, banning all hand raising and building in a way for kids to stick their friends (or enemies) with a question when called out by a teacher is just taking it a little too far.
I LOVE spirited class discussion. But with 32 kids in a class and no mic to pass and no security in my room, methodical hand raising is the only way I have found moderate a discussion. Without it things degenerate into something that looks like this.
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See, people like this who ban hand raising have obviously either never had kids participate in theirr classes because their boring OR they have classes of twelve kids.
I hate it when people are so squishy....
Or they're English.
Yeah-- the same people who wanted to expunge the word "fail" from their vocabularies and change it to "deferred success..."
See http://shrewdnessofapes.blogspot.com/2005/07/failure-by-any-other-name.html
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