Size Matters: How Much Reading to Assign (and other imponderables) - Center for Teachin... - 1 views
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dkiesel on 23 Jun 14Getting carried away reading other students links and exploring websites assigned for class takes a lot of time. The measurement of what becomes important to the student changes as the student exp[lore. The teacher on the other hand is stagnent with assigned expectations.
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Similarly, assigning four different articles in one week might mean than they aren’t getting as much as they could out of any of them. Less can be more.
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Novices and experts. Many of the above points relate to the fact that we read as experts while our students are still novices and are really learning how to read appropriately to build up their expertise.
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