Done done and done
Posted by Kathryn on 10th December and posted in Staff, Students, Teaching
My portfolios are FINISHED!!! Woo Hoo! Nah, I’m not happy or anything like that.
I was quite happy to hear that having 20 pages for the afternoon classes was too many. So I only needed to gather up 10 pages of work for all my students. I had 9 classes to do portfolios for this time around. I was smart. I started gathering up work many weeks ago. I gave B1 and C3 their science test today and that was the last thing that needed to go into their portfolios.
I had all the comments finished early last week. I had the bulk of the work completed late last week. Over the weekend, I put all the portfolios together and stapled the ones that were done. After work today I graded those two science tests, recorded the scores and then stapled them all together.
I’m glad this isn’t hanging over my head. The last time I let them go almost to the very deadline. Not so much out of laziness, but rather I needed all that time to gather up enough work for all the classes.
Overall, I’m pretty pleased with how my students did. I was especially impressed with the B1 science tests. We went through the unit fairly quickly because I wanted to get the unit 1 test in the portfolios. There was nothing lower than an 85% on it and there was even one 100%. C3 scores were a bit more mixed, but nothing lower than a 70%.
Now we sit back and sort of coast into the Christmas holidays. The C and D classes will get somewhat rearranged come the beginning of January. So D2 is going to finish up their speaking book this week and next week. I’ll be doing a quick science project with B1 and C3. And the rest of my classes will continue working on their math. Fun fun fun.
