Today we FINALLY found out the results of (MOST... I say most because the idiot scanner we have to grade these just happens to leave out some... but fortunately they are not ones that I particularly want to be counted) our TEKS check. My kids did the best out of all 4 science teachers. WOOOOO HOOOO!!!
I'm so excited for them. I even told some of my classes about it today and when I see the first half of the day I will tell them too! Ok, so I am pretty sure it is because we went over all these concepts the day before... so I was feeling pretty uncomfortable with being almost 10% higher in passing rate than any other teacher, but then I looked at the breakdowns and I don't feel so bad because my sub pops that I need to focus on are still doing poorly and as a whole I still only have on average a less than passing score. So, even though we went over these the day before, we still have some work to do. All my kids who failed this test will have mandatory tutoring during a two week span, at least 1 day each week... just so we can recover the concepts they are not so great at... or in other words... the whole test! Also, I really learned why question wording is so important. A whole bunch of my kids missed a question where the answer had the word "diminishing" in it. Well, my kids apparently see a word like that and then just pick a different answer. I would have thought that 8th graders would know this word, but.... no... this must be a very big vocab word. So, guess what word will be given some space on our next test or quiz?!?!?!
Tomorrow, we have a TAKS math simulation day. So I get to be a hall monitor because I am not technically certified yet. Can't decide if this is a good or bad thing yet, but I'm looking forward to not having to teach anything and kinda looking at my schedule for the next week or two.
My mom always says I jump too much from one thing to the next, so I will not go into other topics such as how I was called down to the principal's office today (and YES I still have a job) or 7th grade basketball, or projects as test grades, or first days of the new semester, or... well, you get the idea!!!
-coach b!
2 comments:
AWESOME!!! It is so great when students prove what a great job you are doing with your kids! I am so proud of the work you are doing with these kids ---- I'm doing the happy dance for you, so you do the happy dance too! You deserve it! Kuddos to you and keep going girl!
I like the new look of your blog!
and be sure and give us all those other topics in more postings. :-)
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