@wilwheaton.net You are not wrong.

He's meeting the students where they are, teaching them rather than being driven by delivering content/curriculum. As he says, "These classroom dynamics feel timeless," and they are!

2. What do teachers lose in terms of subject and pedagogical knowledge when they don't plan curriculum and lessons themselves?

They lose some of the most valuable data to hand & lose sight of where each child is on their learning journey & next steps for them. The relationship* with the child is lost

*teaching & learning relationship- not asking them how their team got on at the weekend (no one wants to be asked that 😬)

4. Does AI assessment catch the right error signals? Feed the model student work with known subtle errors and known correct answers. Evaluate if the AI catches the actual mistakes or if it "hallucinates" errors that don't exist.

3. What do teachers lose when they don't mark student work? What does this mean for formative assessment?

Another skit used a Bon Jovi song singing that JC gave "Rome a bad name!" Also having students write & perform their own a 32 second Macbeth--picking the perfect lines and then seeing how fast they could do it. Always fun

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Having the students write and perform parodies of scenes in Julius Caesar. One skit had me as JC who needed to be killed because I was killing too many trees by xeroxing too much; the assassination was death by 1000s of papercuts.
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Not really surprising. I think one thing I learned over my years teaching any Shakespeare is that I can't and shouldn't teach every possible thing in the plays. Teaching a play in 3 weeks (4 weeks max.) excluding testing was my aim. That helped me ensure I included other important works and voices.

A4: 3/3 In terms of classroom study with close readings of the plays themselves 2-3 at best.

A4: 2/3 What resulted was a bunch of 9th graders reading one play closely but then hearing about the two other plays and having all kinds of conversations. The teachers got to flex their teaching muscles and alleviate their boredom of teaching the same play year after year. #SundayMacbethChat

A4: 1/3 As a student, my 9th grade teachers offered a tragedy, a comedy, & a history play. We ranked our choices & most got their 1st is not 2nd choice. We then met with the teacher who was in charge of a particular play. Offering choice was key to entry. ( I picked Henry V!) #SundayMacbethChat

It's important for HS students to take to on some responsibility in their learning/accessing the content. No Fear Shakespeare versions were available for their use if they needed them. No shame-approval from me as they worked to meet their needs.

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A3: Finding the hook that is relevant to them. That may mean that we do not get to teach the plays we would like/love to teach but that is okay. I think that is reason Romeo and Juliet seems to be a favorite play for freshmen to read--the main characters are around their age. #SundayMacbethChat