FIAE: Chapter 10

Letting kids redo assignments is something that I believe in and would want to allow my own students. But it can really be a risky thing because some students may just do bad on an assignment because they know they will be able to make it up, determining those students from the rest who tried and really should make it up is going to be difficult. Redoing an assignment does take extra time and effort on top of that that they already had to do to begin with so if they want to redo it then it should be allowed. As a teacher I will have to make sure that any assignments such as tests will have to have a different redo assignment with similar but different questions. It makes sens that they should be able to make it up to the full percentage, because if education is all about mastery then they should be able to improve and as they do their mastery in a subject will too. It would be pointless to redo an assignment if you could only get a few point higher, if they are going to take the time to do it then they should be able to get a perfect score if that is what they deserve in the end. These chapters have really helped me to understand that school is about mastering a given subject or topic and students should be given all kinds of chances to improve their knowledge.