: Two down, three to go
Nothing like giving finals.
I was a bit trepidacious about the new waiver rule. Although I agree we should award students who pass the TAKS test, it does leave the bottom part of the learning curbe to take the remaining tests. Thus the average and behavior of the students remaining are both called into question.
So I set out the scantrons and formula charts out in a checkerboard pattern, and instructed students to sit where there was a scantron. They came in, took their test, and were even well behaved enough to wait patiently for me to scan the tests.
So, they're in the book and three more are to go. My two computer science classes (one exempt fron both classes) and my smallest geometry class.
Tomorrow is third and fourth period finals. Third is my conference period, and fourth is my lunch. So I'll be over at Stinson to talk to the eighth graders in Mr. V's Geometry classes.
Every time I mention this to the math team students, they get this look of hatred in their eyes. While they love Mr. V., they hate the idea that they had to suffer through a Math Models class in the Excel program that means nothing to them in high school while these youngsters have everything given to them (meaning, of course, the Geometry Honors course)
What they probably don't realise is it's through their hard work to get the course changed that these young students feed on the fruits of their labor.
It's probably similar to how people will feel when Calculus III and Differential Equations will count as honors credit and will show up as those courses on HS transcripts rather than a regular ISM credit.
We fight, but sometimes those after us taste the spoils.
~MP
Nothing like giving finals.
I was a bit trepidacious about the new waiver rule. Although I agree we should award students who pass the TAKS test, it does leave the bottom part of the learning curbe to take the remaining tests. Thus the average and behavior of the students remaining are both called into question.
So I set out the scantrons and formula charts out in a checkerboard pattern, and instructed students to sit where there was a scantron. They came in, took their test, and were even well behaved enough to wait patiently for me to scan the tests.
So, they're in the book and three more are to go. My two computer science classes (one exempt fron both classes) and my smallest geometry class.
Tomorrow is third and fourth period finals. Third is my conference period, and fourth is my lunch. So I'll be over at Stinson to talk to the eighth graders in Mr. V's Geometry classes.
Every time I mention this to the math team students, they get this look of hatred in their eyes. While they love Mr. V., they hate the idea that they had to suffer through a Math Models class in the Excel program that means nothing to them in high school while these youngsters have everything given to them (meaning, of course, the Geometry Honors course)
What they probably don't realise is it's through their hard work to get the course changed that these young students feed on the fruits of their labor.
It's probably similar to how people will feel when Calculus III and Differential Equations will count as honors credit and will show up as those courses on HS transcripts rather than a regular ISM credit.
We fight, but sometimes those after us taste the spoils.
~MP