When I was in school, back when you could ride your dinosaur there, if you really crashed on a test, sometimes you could take it over. Stressing out over tests and having your mind go blank is a real problem and an astute, watchful teacher will see their student’s need to try it again…especially if their student’s classroom work shows they do know the subject, which shows test stress syndrome.
Aren’t spelling tests given orally? That would mean a make-up test would use up a lot of class time (as opposed to a paper test that a student could take in another room).
I got a new watch a little while ago. It’s the Garmin Swim 2, and it wasn’t supposed to be a watch. It was supposed to just be something I wore to count and time my laps and review my workout, just like my old Garmin Swim. I upgraded to the Swim 2 because it does a couple of most excellent things in the pool that the original Swim didn’t — give me a pace interval option and let me program workouts into it in advance — and because it has reliable GPS so I can see just how fast and straight I am or am not swimming in open water (time will tell if this is a good thing). Which still wouldn’t have me wearing it as a watch.
But it also does about 5 times as much as my last Garmin that wasn’t strictly a swim tracker, in a case about a fifth of the size. I can’t believe all the features they stuffed into it. Features I figured I’d ignore. Only some of which I ignore, and I’m embarrassed to say I wear the thing, which looks very much like a piece of functional if cheesy fitness equipment, more than I wear my watch, which looks like a nice watch.
One of the things it does is track my sleep. I don’t know how it tracks my sleep, but it does, and I wear it for the same reason I hate it: Because it is creepily accurate, and it says very depressing things about my prospects for a healthy and productive lifestyle if there’s any truth (which of course there is) to what science says about the sleep humans need. Truth be told, you can tell you’re not getting enough sleep just by paying attention, just as athletes a generation ago, training by feel, were able to outperform the most geared-up techathlete of today. But a problem documented is a problem that much closer to solvable, and I’m working on it. I am not yet there, not even close. But now there’s quantifiable evidence of just how far I have to go.
Bilan about 4 years ago
It had little to do with sleep and more to do with Google last night.
jpayne4040 about 4 years ago
Yes; you’re both right.
LadyPeterW about 4 years ago
When I was in school, back when you could ride your dinosaur there, if you really crashed on a test, sometimes you could take it over. Stressing out over tests and having your mind go blank is a real problem and an astute, watchful teacher will see their student’s need to try it again…especially if their student’s classroom work shows they do know the subject, which shows test stress syndrome.
rshive about 4 years ago
Practice makes perfect.
grosservater about 4 years ago
But he knew exactly what words would be on the original test.
1MadHat Premium Member about 4 years ago
It’s sometimes called “Teaching To The Test”. 8^)
Cactus-Pete about 4 years ago
Aren’t spelling tests given orally? That would mean a make-up test would use up a lot of class time (as opposed to a paper test that a student could take in another room).
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 4 years ago
PostsFrazz14 hrs ·
I got a new watch a little while ago. It’s the Garmin Swim 2, and it wasn’t supposed to be a watch. It was supposed to just be something I wore to count and time my laps and review my workout, just like my old Garmin Swim. I upgraded to the Swim 2 because it does a couple of most excellent things in the pool that the original Swim didn’t — give me a pace interval option and let me program workouts into it in advance — and because it has reliable GPS so I can see just how fast and straight I am or am not swimming in open water (time will tell if this is a good thing). Which still wouldn’t have me wearing it as a watch.
But it also does about 5 times as much as my last Garmin that wasn’t strictly a swim tracker, in a case about a fifth of the size. I can’t believe all the features they stuffed into it. Features I figured I’d ignore. Only some of which I ignore, and I’m embarrassed to say I wear the thing, which looks very much like a piece of functional if cheesy fitness equipment, more than I wear my watch, which looks like a nice watch.
One of the things it does is track my sleep. I don’t know how it tracks my sleep, but it does, and I wear it for the same reason I hate it: Because it is creepily accurate, and it says very depressing things about my prospects for a healthy and productive lifestyle if there’s any truth (which of course there is) to what science says about the sleep humans need. Truth be told, you can tell you’re not getting enough sleep just by paying attention, just as athletes a generation ago, training by feel, were able to outperform the most geared-up techathlete of today. But a problem documented is a problem that much closer to solvable, and I’m working on it. I am not yet there, not even close. But now there’s quantifiable evidence of just how far I have to go.
Wow, that was exhausting.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 4 years ago
I’m exhausted too from reading it.