But it's not just the students who are casualties of this period. Teachers are struggling with their own social-emotional matters. This takes a toll on teachers' energy levels and ability to want to interact with kids. A daily barrage of students'...
eachers deal with so much more than delivering the curriculum. There are discipline issues, extra duties before and after school, lesson planning and grading that follow you home, parent phone calls, meetings... Those are just the physical issues.
It's time to end Common Core and State testing as a way to determine the effectiveness of our schools. Blaming teachers for students' poor performance on these tests, is like blaming the doctor for a patient not losing weight.
Show Notes In this episode we start with a little about the history, the how and the why, of grading. (Did you know that grades were originally A, B, C, D and E?? Where did F come in?). Then we talk about grading practices used today and how...
