If You Always Call on the Fastest Hand, You Teach the Room Something The question is asked. A hand shoots up. Then another. The teacher calls on one of them, the answer comes quickly, and the lesson keeps moving. It feels efficient. It may even feel like engagement. Over time, though, the room begins to learn something that was never part of the lesson plan. It learns whose voice counts. It learns how quickly an answer needs to arrive. It learns whether thinking time is actua
