Day 48: A series of miscellaneous events...
Today was one of those days - you know, one that ends with you being exhausted with no particular reason. Or was there a reason?
Since we turned the clocks back an hour, Christine my early bird is an even earlier bird. She was up at 4:30AM this morning. I don't think this even qualifies as "crack of dawn" - perhaps I should send her out to live on a farm where early risers are much more appreciated...
The day went OK - I am debating what to do with 4 students (all from the problematic class) who were late in handing in an assignment - assignment which I gave them to better their grade - with much warning that I would not, could not, accept if handed in after the 31st of October.
I found out today that I have to assign a letter-based (A,B,C, etc) grade to each student best describing their behavior in class. This won't be easy - it will be simple for the good students, but for the bad ones, I need to think it through. I'm discovering that I'm a real softie and that it really affects me when students are not doing well in my classes.
The twins went down howling tonight, which is never a nice way to end the evening. I'm so tired at this point, I think the only thing I'm good for is hitting the pillow.
For those of you who may want a little chuckle after this serious post, here are two of the comments I either heard or received directly today from various students - regarding my new haircut:
"Didn't you get your hair cut a few weeks ago?"
"Did you get your hair cut?" (to which I should have answered: "No, why do you ask?")
Since we turned the clocks back an hour, Christine my early bird is an even earlier bird. She was up at 4:30AM this morning. I don't think this even qualifies as "crack of dawn" - perhaps I should send her out to live on a farm where early risers are much more appreciated...
The day went OK - I am debating what to do with 4 students (all from the problematic class) who were late in handing in an assignment - assignment which I gave them to better their grade - with much warning that I would not, could not, accept if handed in after the 31st of October.
I found out today that I have to assign a letter-based (A,B,C, etc) grade to each student best describing their behavior in class. This won't be easy - it will be simple for the good students, but for the bad ones, I need to think it through. I'm discovering that I'm a real softie and that it really affects me when students are not doing well in my classes.
The twins went down howling tonight, which is never a nice way to end the evening. I'm so tired at this point, I think the only thing I'm good for is hitting the pillow.
For those of you who may want a little chuckle after this serious post, here are two of the comments I either heard or received directly today from various students - regarding my new haircut:
"Didn't you get your hair cut a few weeks ago?"
"Did you get your hair cut?" (to which I should have answered: "No, why do you ask?")
Good luck figuring out how to grade conduct for those less than perfect students. Its always hard trying to figure out what to do.
Posted by
Lucy Stern |
10:39 a.m.