It's getting close to midterms... now we are starting to feel the time crunch, reevaluating our pacing, trying to get as much as we can out of each block. These nine weeks tests are a reality check for us. We think we're doing a good job, but will this be reflected in our students' scores? Will the extra effort we have been putting forth, especially with regard to reading comprehension strategies, translate to these standardized tests? At the end of the last nine weeks, we noticed that test scores had improved. I expect to see a similar change in the data for the midtem exams.
I just finished grading a batch of quizzes, homeworks, classworks, etc. and took a look at my students' grades... overall they are doing much better than the first few months of school. A lot of my students who were "on the fence" last marking period (with an average in the "high" F range) have pulled their grades up to a C. These are also the same students who are "on the fence" at the end of the year when we take our SOLs, so these are the students that we really have to focus on.
Time to get back to planning the rest of the semester... cross your fingers for some good news after midterms!
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