The Final Marks
Workday - 8:45am-3:30pm
Today was the day students got their final marks from teachers. They were also allowed to look at their final exams. I'm actually quite surprised the day was incident-free. My students were all fairly mellow about their results. The ones who failed seemed to know it was coming (even the couple of students who were doing well at the beginning of the semester but took nose-dives in the last month). The most extreme reactions I got were from a couple of people who passed and didn't expect it.
Even my one student whose mark was so low she can't even attend summer school was fairly sedate about the news. I told her she'll have to talk to guidance a.s.a.p. to change her schedule for next year. Plus, she should take the "applied" stream of math in grades 9 and 10 to make it easier on herself. She was nodding along, but it's hard to tell if she'll actually switch levels. Sometimes these kids are just going along with what you're saying to appease you.
The distribution of grades was actually only the first two hours of the day. We teachers had to be there for the full day (of course), and spent the rest of our time doing whatever needed to be done.
At first, I thought it would be another day of nothing. However, my boss found me stuff to do for the afternoon. The task was simple enough. I just needed to find some repertoire for the grade 9 band class in September. Tomorrow I'll be photocopying the music I chose.
I found out my (always tentative) timetable for next year, as well. As of now, I have all three keyboard classes and one grade 9 band (for music). It sounds a lot like this past year, except there were only two keyboard classes in total. My other two classes will be math (yay! No more careers!), but I'm not sure what courses they'll be. I talked to the math department head about it last week, and I was timetabled for three math classes at the time. Those classes were two applied grade 10s, and one grade 11 "math for everyday life" (read: the most basic level math you can take in grade 11). Now that I only have two maths, it's hard to say which two they'll be. I guess I hope they'll be the two grade 10 classes so I'll only have one prep.
Hm. I guess today's entry had nothing funny or interesting to say. Sorry about that.
The countdown:
3 days left, or
3 weekdays, or
3 days where I actually have to go into the school.
Woo!
Today was the day students got their final marks from teachers. They were also allowed to look at their final exams. I'm actually quite surprised the day was incident-free. My students were all fairly mellow about their results. The ones who failed seemed to know it was coming (even the couple of students who were doing well at the beginning of the semester but took nose-dives in the last month). The most extreme reactions I got were from a couple of people who passed and didn't expect it.
Even my one student whose mark was so low she can't even attend summer school was fairly sedate about the news. I told her she'll have to talk to guidance a.s.a.p. to change her schedule for next year. Plus, she should take the "applied" stream of math in grades 9 and 10 to make it easier on herself. She was nodding along, but it's hard to tell if she'll actually switch levels. Sometimes these kids are just going along with what you're saying to appease you.
The distribution of grades was actually only the first two hours of the day. We teachers had to be there for the full day (of course), and spent the rest of our time doing whatever needed to be done.
At first, I thought it would be another day of nothing. However, my boss found me stuff to do for the afternoon. The task was simple enough. I just needed to find some repertoire for the grade 9 band class in September. Tomorrow I'll be photocopying the music I chose.
I found out my (always tentative) timetable for next year, as well. As of now, I have all three keyboard classes and one grade 9 band (for music). It sounds a lot like this past year, except there were only two keyboard classes in total. My other two classes will be math (yay! No more careers!), but I'm not sure what courses they'll be. I talked to the math department head about it last week, and I was timetabled for three math classes at the time. Those classes were two applied grade 10s, and one grade 11 "math for everyday life" (read: the most basic level math you can take in grade 11). Now that I only have two maths, it's hard to say which two they'll be. I guess I hope they'll be the two grade 10 classes so I'll only have one prep.
Hm. I guess today's entry had nothing funny or interesting to say. Sorry about that.
The countdown:
3 days left, or
3 weekdays, or
3 days where I actually have to go into the school.
Woo!
1 Comments:
Take some of the preparation and marking drudgery out of your Math class by using the materials on
www.TheMathWebSite.com
It even allows kids to get their own practice sheets.
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Alfred, at 10:00 a.m.
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