It blows my mind that I was thrown into French at the age of 5 and never complained once. I'm fluent.
Today my main coteacher gave me a survey about my satisfaction with the school and my relationship with my coteachers. I have to give the survey back to her when I'm finished (not confidential). She asked me to complete the survey honestly.
Quote from: Chinguetti on July 07, 2017, 01:55:08 pmSomething that I got strong-armed into doing is finally coming around, and, even though I'd managed to negotiate a bit so that it wasn't a completely one-sided affair, it's still put me in a foul-ass mood today. I've been trying to hide it, but apparently I'm not doing a very good job of it because people are tip-toeing around or are outright trying to avoid me right now. Which isn't to say that my day has been peaceful, because naw, a couple of individuals keep coming in to pester me about stuff that can wait until after vacation, even though I've made it pretty ****** clear that I'm legit busy with all of the extra work that got foisted on me by them. I also keep getting approached by concerned teachers over students' speaking test scores, and I have to keep refusing to artificially raise them. The kids earned what they got, I was already super generous with my grading. One student insisted that she answered everything perfectly and that her grade must be a mistake because there's no way she shouldn't have gotten an 'A' -- **** no, I'm not just going to raise her grade from a 'C' to an 'A' just because she says so. But I concede to a degree and offer to re-test her. It's a 1-minute speaking test, not that hard, especially if she honestly believes that she deserves an 'A'... should be pretty ****** easy for her, if that's the case. She declines the re-test, of course. Teacher is surprised, lmfao. I don't know why some teachers have such a hard time seeing through their students' bullshit. Maybe I just need to make my own expectations a LOT more clear at the beginning of the semester, I don't know. You'd think these kids would learn over the time I've been here already and the fact that I've never changed my grading standards and that I don't play ****** favorites. Just because I like you doesn't mean I'm going to let you slide in my class or that I'm going to grant you "lovelovebonuspoints" during the speaking exam. That's not part of my rubric, sorry. I mean, ****, the only way I can make it any easier is if I gave them a ****** script to read back at me during the speaking test. They could LITERALLY ace the exam if they JUST spent an hour or so memorizing a few things on the day of the exam. It's that basic. And it's been drilled into them from day 1. What_the_fuck_are_t hese_kids_doing?I know this isn't anything new, but good GAWD is it annoying as **** today.It blows my mind that I was thrown into French at the age of 5 and never complained once. I'm fluent. These kids learn 2 sentence points every 2 weeks. And some just can't f'in get it. The speaking tests are a joke here. It's 4 sentences that are all basically the same sentence. Go straight 1/2 blocks and turn left/right. It's nexto/between x and/or Y.90% of my kids get perfect. Which sounds great, but shouldn't it me MORE challenging at that point?
Something that I got strong-armed into doing is finally coming around, and, even though I'd managed to negotiate a bit so that it wasn't a completely one-sided affair, it's still put me in a foul-ass mood today. I've been trying to hide it, but apparently I'm not doing a very good job of it because people are tip-toeing around or are outright trying to avoid me right now. Which isn't to say that my day has been peaceful, because naw, a couple of individuals keep coming in to pester me about stuff that can wait until after vacation, even though I've made it pretty ****** clear that I'm legit busy with all of the extra work that got foisted on me by them. I also keep getting approached by concerned teachers over students' speaking test scores, and I have to keep refusing to artificially raise them. The kids earned what they got, I was already super generous with my grading. One student insisted that she answered everything perfectly and that her grade must be a mistake because there's no way she shouldn't have gotten an 'A' -- **** no, I'm not just going to raise her grade from a 'C' to an 'A' just because she says so. But I concede to a degree and offer to re-test her. It's a 1-minute speaking test, not that hard, especially if she honestly believes that she deserves an 'A'... should be pretty ****** easy for her, if that's the case. She declines the re-test, of course. Teacher is surprised, lmfao. I don't know why some teachers have such a hard time seeing through their students' bullshit. Maybe I just need to make my own expectations a LOT more clear at the beginning of the semester, I don't know. You'd think these kids would learn over the time I've been here already and the fact that I've never changed my grading standards and that I don't play ****** favorites. Just because I like you doesn't mean I'm going to let you slide in my class or that I'm going to grant you "lovelovebonuspoints" during the speaking exam. That's not part of my rubric, sorry. I mean, ****, the only way I can make it any easier is if I gave them a ****** script to read back at me during the speaking test. They could LITERALLY ace the exam if they JUST spent an hour or so memorizing a few things on the day of the exam. It's that basic. And it's been drilled into them from day 1. What_the_fuck_are_t hese_kids_doing?I know this isn't anything new, but good GAWD is it annoying as **** today.
Same shit, different Monday.
Quote from: sevenpm on July 10, 2017, 10:30:32 amSame shit, different Monday.This reminds me how some of my middle schoolers are still miffed anytime they have to make a group of more than four.
Quote from: chupacaubrey on July 10, 2017, 12:07:14 pmQuote from: sevenpm on July 10, 2017, 10:30:32 amSame shit, different Monday.This reminds me how some of my middle schoolers are still miffed anytime they have to make a group of more than four.Yes, I agree. My 2nd graders, especially. They had to make groups last year, too. This is not a new concept. Even my CoT gets on them for moving so slowly.
Is anyone not having a miserable Monday?(Spoiler: I'm also having a miserable Monday.)
Grade 6 class. Subject is: How tall are you? Co teacher devises a worksheet where the kids fill their height, foot size, how big is your hand, bicep, waist, circumference of head, length of leg etc etc. Gives them some tape measure and lets them have at it. She joins in, measuring the girls. At one point she yells to me 'help me' and wants me to measure the inner length of one of the boys legs. no no no, I will not do that. What is wrong with you!!? Why would you even ask me that?
Quote from: welcomebackkotter on July 10, 2017, 02:14:32 pmGrade 6 class. Subject is: How tall are you? Co teacher devises a worksheet where the kids fill their height, foot size, how big is your hand, bicep, waist, circumference of head, length of leg etc etc. Gives them some tape measure and lets them have at it. She joins in, measuring the girls. At one point she yells to me 'help me' and wants me to measure the inner length of one of the boys legs. no no no, I will not do that. What is wrong with you!!? Why would you even ask me that? What did you do in the end?I don't see the worksheet as being too bad though, might steal the idea. Without helping obvs!
Quote from: welcomebackkotter on July 10, 2017, 02:14:32 pmGrade 6 class. Subject is: How tall are you? Co teacher devises a worksheet where the kids fill their height, foot size, how big is your hand, bicep, waist, circumference of head, length of leg etc etc. Gives them some tape measure and lets them have at it. She joins in, measuring the girls. At one point she yells to me 'help me' and wants me to measure the inner length of one of the boys legs. no no no, I will not do that. What is wrong with you!!? Why would you even ask me that? I definitely don't think it's a good idea for the student's to measure waists, as you will end up with a couple of people with larger numbers than most!! That would be pretty humiliating. It also seems more like a maths lesson than English.
Quote from: kimchiyum on July 10, 2017, 08:19:48 pmQuote from: welcomebackkotter on July 10, 2017, 02:14:32 pmGrade 6 class. Subject is: How tall are you? Co teacher devises a worksheet where the kids fill their height, foot size, how big is your hand, bicep, waist, circumference of head, length of leg etc etc. Gives them some tape measure and lets them have at it. She joins in, measuring the girls. At one point she yells to me 'help me' and wants me to measure the inner length of one of the boys legs. no no no, I will not do that. What is wrong with you!!? Why would you even ask me that? I definitely don't think it's a good idea for the student's to measure waists, as you will end up with a couple of people with larger numbers than most!! That would be pretty humiliating. It also seems more like a maths lesson than English.I did a similar thing last year, though I stuck to height, hair length and hand size. My CT insisted on removing the height measuring as many of the students felt too self conscious about reporting their height... 5th grade children are made to feel self conscious about their height... Speaks volumes about the society they live in.
Quote from: Aristocrat on July 10, 2017, 09:46:40 pmI did a similar thing last year, though I stuck to height, hair length and hand size. My CT insisted on removing the height measuring as many of the students felt too self conscious about reporting their height... 5th grade children are made to feel self conscious about their height... Speaks volumes about the society they live in.Anyway, to illustrate my point, the students insisted on measuring my height, then proceeded to clap and congratulate me in a bit of an awkward display. My CT seemed to be feeling a bit upstaged and decided to add a new challenge "How long can you split?". My CT does Yoga and in a rather undignified spectacle, goes into a rather shaky splits with her panties and love handles popping out for all to see.That sounds so awkward.I had a CT who refused to take off her 5 inch platform slippers to measure her height against the students whom she was clearly shorter than. She looked at me with pleading eyes to not make her do it, so I said okay, I'll do it alone.She was fine with them calling her fat and ugly, but when it comes to height it was a big problem. I thought this was something only guys obsessed over here so I really didn't get it. Everyone could see that some 6th graders were really tall, and that she wore platforms to school every day, but she really thought she needed to keep them on to play the game
I did a similar thing last year, though I stuck to height, hair length and hand size. My CT insisted on removing the height measuring as many of the students felt too self conscious about reporting their height... 5th grade children are made to feel self conscious about their height... Speaks volumes about the society they live in.Anyway, to illustrate my point, the students insisted on measuring my height, then proceeded to clap and congratulate me in a bit of an awkward display. My CT seemed to be feeling a bit upstaged and decided to add a new challenge "How long can you split?". My CT does Yoga and in a rather undignified spectacle, goes into a rather shaky splits with her panties and love handles popping out for all to see.