Sharing the SBG Wealth
Posted May 22, 2013
on:I have a steady stream of teachers asking if I would be willing to share my SBG files and spreadsheets. My answer is always a qualified ‘yes.’
I have over 300 Physics quizzes, 200 AP Calculus quizzes, and various spreadsheets and other files. If I dumped all of those files on you without a detailed explanation, you would probably be overwhelmed and get nowhere. So what I ask is that anyone requesting my hard work do a few simple things:
- Go back and read over all of my SBG posts from the beginning. I spent hours on research and reading before being convinced SBG would work for me. I documented the how and why pretty thoroughly here.
- Ask me questions, as many as you want. I promise to answer promptly and thoroughly. Only with some discussion will SBG really start to make sense. You can’t buy in part way. As Yoda might say, “SBG – do or do not.” Sort-of doing SBG doesn’t work.
- Don’t make changes to the system without discussing it with me. After research and discussions with other teachers, I was able to avoid a lot of mistakes. I have tried many tweaks and made a number of incremental improvements each year. Don’t reinvent the wheel.
- As you implement this and come up with your own tweaks, add to the dialog here. I want to learn from your successes and failures.
- Once I provide you with my files, do not publish any of the questions. They came from textbooks, I do not own the rights to most of the questions, so I can’t give you permission to publish them.
That’s really it. I’ve done all the work for two courses, now it looks like I’m picking up Algebra 2 Honors next year. Time to start work on a third course.
6 Responses to "Sharing the SBG Wealth"
i am fascinated by the concept, learned about it at an AP institute last year. Unfortunately due to changes in the progression plan i only had AP last year so didn’t do anything about it.
This year i have one class which is 10 honors students (all pre-calc honors) and 9 average, (most in math for college readiness) so a big disparity. i have taught both levels but never together. I love this idea for this reason, and think that one way to justify the higher grade point for honors would be to only use C with honors students. What do you think about this idea. I would LOVE anything you have. I don’t teach calculus yet, just Alg 2 honors.
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1 | rumushitung
July 11, 2013 at 1:14 am
nice physic blog… thank you for all articles..