10/10/06
This morning I visited Mr. Borton's second hour class. For the last three school days the kids have been working on correctives or extensions to get the full points needed to pass the unit. Today the corrective test was given. Immediately as class started a boy was being rowdy and Mr. Borton made him go in the hall to talk with him. He had me review for the test and the students were actively involved in this. After the review the test was given to the half or more of the class which was doing correctives. I noticed that most of the extension students were done with their units and most were reading novels or working on some homework for another class. Only a few of them were finishing up their units. After the test we put on a movie and graded the tests. It was disappointing that so many of the students who retook the tests failed again. A few who did well were excited that they had done better, but many of them failed again. Each student was called up to talk with Mr. Borton. He asked each student if they studied before taking the test again and almost all of them said no. Also most of them who failed the test were falling short in completion of their unit or didn't have their folder to show the teacher. Mr. Borton said that he had just talked to most of the parents of these students and that they all said that they would help their students study to pass this test the second time. It makes me wonder how effective correctives are and if it is worth taking all the time required or not to try and help the few students who take the correctives seriously.
We also had an interesting discussion about a student who never comes to class. The student will inevitably get an F, which will count bad towards AYP and the science program. Mr. Borton has talked to the students mother but she says that her child is scared to come to school so she lets him stay home most of the time. The school really doesn't do anything about students like this one who are absent all of the time and it is frustrating for the teacher.
This morning I visited Mr. Borton's second hour class. For the last three school days the kids have been working on correctives or extensions to get the full points needed to pass the unit. Today the corrective test was given. Immediately as class started a boy was being rowdy and Mr. Borton made him go in the hall to talk with him. He had me review for the test and the students were actively involved in this. After the review the test was given to the half or more of the class which was doing correctives. I noticed that most of the extension students were done with their units and most were reading novels or working on some homework for another class. Only a few of them were finishing up their units. After the test we put on a movie and graded the tests. It was disappointing that so many of the students who retook the tests failed again. A few who did well were excited that they had done better, but many of them failed again. Each student was called up to talk with Mr. Borton. He asked each student if they studied before taking the test again and almost all of them said no. Also most of them who failed the test were falling short in completion of their unit or didn't have their folder to show the teacher. Mr. Borton said that he had just talked to most of the parents of these students and that they all said that they would help their students study to pass this test the second time. It makes me wonder how effective correctives are and if it is worth taking all the time required or not to try and help the few students who take the correctives seriously.
We also had an interesting discussion about a student who never comes to class. The student will inevitably get an F, which will count bad towards AYP and the science program. Mr. Borton has talked to the students mother but she says that her child is scared to come to school so she lets him stay home most of the time. The school really doesn't do anything about students like this one who are absent all of the time and it is frustrating for the teacher.
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