SI 618, Week 4

While I appreciate the change-up in lecture this week, I found it a little disrupting to approach the homework stop-and-go style.  We would be making progress, or on a roll in the middle of attempting something, and we would be stopped so we could go back to lecture.

I also found myself feeling time-stress, which I'm not used to in this class.  Usually, I'm ok knowing other students work faster than my group does, but when we were on number 2, as you begin to explain number 11, we felt the time crunch, and it lead to a little argument in-group about how slow we were going, which slowed us down even more.

I think this kind of class set-up works well when everyone is working on the same place: you explain Numbers 1-3, everyone does 1-3, and then everyone moves on as a collective.  If everyone is NOT on the same pace (like our class), then I think it makes more sense to give the entire assignment at the beginning, and  then allow students to work at their own pace, so there is not any of this kind of time-stress, and it doesn't make any students feel like they are being ignored or glossed over because of the pace at which they work.

Thank you!