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danaerisToday I:
-finished grading tests from Monday, put them on a curve, and recorded them
-stopped at Albertsons for needed groceries and tp
-researched some political stuff and voted
-redid all the work I lost last night on my mail program and filters plus some
-got my professional email addresses up and running on the new mail program
-sent an invoice for some work I did a while back
Needless to say all this work has been saved repeatedly. So I shouldn't lose it again. Phew.
More detail:
The tests
They're still all on a curve. But every test, the average gets higher and higher, and the curve less and less necessary. There's also some interesting changes occurring... students who at first appeared to be doing very well are not doing so well and vice versa. To a large extent I think this is due to them choosing to not pay attention because they feel they can get away with it. Everything else in school has been going better and better every week. It's tough, but I'm finally getting in tune with the pace that these students can learn at and what they do and don't know. One of the major problems I've been running into is that apparently they've never had a math teacher with a math background until the one who ditched them last thanksgiving.
Voting
They moved the polling station on us. We went to 6th St where it was supposed to be and they didn't have our name. They told us to go to another place slightly further from our apartment, and they also didn't have our name. They had the street numbers around our apartment, but not us! So we placed provisional votes there, since polling was closing in a few minutes.
weee. Now I think it is bed time.
-finished grading tests from Monday, put them on a curve, and recorded them
-stopped at Albertsons for needed groceries and tp
-researched some political stuff and voted
-redid all the work I lost last night on my mail program and filters plus some
-got my professional email addresses up and running on the new mail program
-sent an invoice for some work I did a while back
Needless to say all this work has been saved repeatedly. So I shouldn't lose it again. Phew.
More detail:
The tests
They're still all on a curve. But every test, the average gets higher and higher, and the curve less and less necessary. There's also some interesting changes occurring... students who at first appeared to be doing very well are not doing so well and vice versa. To a large extent I think this is due to them choosing to not pay attention because they feel they can get away with it. Everything else in school has been going better and better every week. It's tough, but I'm finally getting in tune with the pace that these students can learn at and what they do and don't know. One of the major problems I've been running into is that apparently they've never had a math teacher with a math background until the one who ditched them last thanksgiving.
Voting
They moved the polling station on us. We went to 6th St where it was supposed to be and they didn't have our name. They told us to go to another place slightly further from our apartment, and they also didn't have our name. They had the street numbers around our apartment, but not us! So we placed provisional votes there, since polling was closing in a few minutes.
weee. Now I think it is bed time.
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hybrid between curve and straight grades
Date: 2004-03-03 08:50 am (UTC)It is, however a lot more work for the teacher.