Monitoring My Game Plan

(This post seeks to complete the assignment required for course 6713 – week 4 of Walden University. In order for the reader to appreciate what this assignment refers to, it will be helpful to review APP3 and the previous posts to this BLOG. http://mrcsphysicswiki.wikispaces.com/Extra+Credit )

This week’s assignment asks that students post their progress toward their individual game plans. As noted in the previous descriptor, Blogs and posted Applications (APP3), one element as noted in the previous BLOG stated that my classes tend to be a unique mixture of varying abilities. It goes on to say that this broad range of abilities and the lack of sufficient class time hindered my student’s ability to grasp key physics concepts. The solution I proposed was to develop, what I called an on-line “Tutorial Matrix” that was teacher generated and related to the subject matter of the actual class. I said that this matrix, started last March, seemed to have hit the mark and preliminary feedback was great.

In fulfillment of this assignment and based upon the enthusiastic feedback from both parents and students, I would like to report that I continue to generate these tutorials. Since much of the information required for this effort is self generated and specifically designed for my student population, there are few resources that I need call upon to reach my September goal of a complete first quarter tutorial matrix. Furthermore, I remain convinced that this approach of offering a self-paced home-study plan for both parents and students will yield good results and I need not modify my approach until me next student/parent SurveyMonkey poll in November.