Mon, Nov 24, 2014 10:57 PM in Combatting Burnout?
Chris, I feel your pain.
Teaching is for me a third act as well. I came in from industry, from one of those STEM fields that we keep saying we need more teachers. Before that, I was on the faculty of a state university. I have never, in almost four decades of work, seen the lack of respect for any kind of workers, but especially teachers. Yet the demands continue to pile on, and the attitudes f...
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Mon, Nov 24, 2014 9:39 PM in Rethinking Homework
Deep down, I don't think that students should have to do a lot of homework outside of class. But I do see a lot of students who are not understanding, yet are afraid to ask questions. I have noticed that many of the students are lacking a "work ethic" so often instead of focusing in the classroom, doing the homework I have given them time for, they are socializing or playing video games on school...
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Mon, Nov 10, 2014 10:18 PM in Retaking Tests
You sound incredibly frustrated, and understandably so. Our district policy is to allow test retakes with completed homework (in my case, that is daily homework), completed review packet before the test, another completed (different) review after the initial test, an individual session with me, and test corrections on the original test. Talk about insane levels of record-keeping, in addition to mu...
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