Fair Isn't Always Equal Chapter 6

    As teachers our jobs seem difficult enough but when it comes to testing it can get a whole lot more difficult. It's important for us as future teachers to include questions that we really want to give students the opportunity to think and push further into the next level of thinking but also to make sure students aren't "bored" or feel like they are just reiterating the same information throughout the whole test, that's why I agree that it's important to have a variety of different questions. In the book it says we don't need so many of the same question, and I believe that to be true except for when it comes to math. I always feel like math is the subject where teachers should give more problems then they think they should because as as student I really needed the extra practice and it really would have helped me better. Another thing that struck me as the most important thing in this chapter was when students ask to get the test before they forget the information. I can relate because I was that student many times, I was a very good student, but I was also a memorizer and I don't know as much content of the academics because I memorized it long enough to transfer it onto the test and then I forgot it. This is the first sign that students aren't learning the material and I wish someone had caught that because by the time I really understood this and how "serious"it was it was too late. It's one of the most essential things that teachers need to focus on is connecting with all the students so that they are able to understand the material not just "remember" it for a test.