Teacher Success!

From time to time I have complained about lack of progress in our projects. MJ says patience is not my strongest point. She may be partly correct (Never will give in completely on this point.)

We have been working for several months to implement a student grading system that is fair to students, communicates to parents, and allows teachers the flexibility needed to use a system on all subject areas as well as age levels. In a meeting Thursday afternoon, a final presentation was made with teachers demonstrating knowledge of a completed system. There were outstanding weighted grading systems presented. The discussion indicated an excellent knowledge of what was done and how it would be used to grade students.

Earlier in the day, I was in the computer room and saw the spreadsheet documents of a few teachers. They were excellent! (We don´t have the luxery of built in spreadsheet systems as most US schools have in their grade report systems. We have to build our own.)

Teachers were obviously pleased with their results as well. At the end of the meeting we asked the question as to which issue we should tackle next. Teaching techniques and discipline were the two top suggestions. Educators throughout America will know that discipline was the final winner. So, we now have a thirty point discipline discussion guide in the hands of teachers to begin thinking about this topic. My co-teacher has translated it so that everyone understands issues and approaches to think about.

IT was a good week!!