I thought that grading was the most annoying part of preparing report cards. Nope, it's definitely the comments. Filtering through over 180 students' grades to choose the most important things to comment on took me forever! They're due at 8am, so it's a good thing I didn't try to do this in the morning. All done now, thank goodness.
I was looking at some grades for a colleague who teaches one section of the same course that I do. The grades in that class were so much better. Clearly we have different standards, and I'm obviously the mean one. Whatever. I'm sorry I expect my fourth-year honors class to be able to use the present, preterit, and imperfect tenses! Also, former colleague who decided to randomly pass all of his students yet teach them nothing did the kids no favors. They've moved on from level one to two and can't conjugate a verb (or are confused at the whole process of doing so) and know absolutely no basic vocabulary. (Days of the week? I'm teaching that to my Spanish 1s tomorrow!) It's so sad and so frustrating!
But how can we have any standards when we have no curriculum? (Yes, still no curriculum. After an entire quarter.)
I need sleep. I have an early and long day tomorrow. 6 classes in a row with no break. Fun.
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We have some lazy teachers in my department too and they always talk the loudest about excellence and how all the rest of us should be teaching. It's a huge problem when students who feed into the next level from other teachers have weak preparation; it puts the kids in the middle!
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