As I find myself in the second half of the 1st Quarter of this school year, grading my students' work, getting ready for the second progress reports to go out, I have also adopted a new grading policy. I will no longer fail students who do submit their work, although it is not really the kind of work I was looking for. This is as a result of several articles we have been reading in our science department. We have adopted a policy of assigning a "50%-minimum" if students submit a sub-par work. Only missing work will be getting the dreaded "zero". We'll see if this works or not.
I have also been thinking on how or teaming and middle school philosophy has been attempted to be killed by our admin....very frustrating. Hard to find ways to help your admin understand the importance and value of teaming and middle school philosophy.
On the flip side, I also have found myself working late at night, for my own classes. This is something I usually never do... by 9 PM I was in bed....now it's close to 11 PM, and then I find myself awake at 2 AM...mind going 100 MPH.... Not a good thing when you have to get up at 5 AM.
But....classes are going good, I am not intimidated by the tasks at hand...I just need to stop procrastinating, and need to learn how to pace myself and actually stick to that schedule I made...
If Mother Nature now could also find a way to pace all that rain that has been falling out of the Sky....and a way to turn the heaters down.... Global warming....no longer a myth folks!
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