No feedback from teachers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to ask for help when you don’t know that you are messing up because your work is not graded timely. By the time you get the grade you are many steps behind.

Must be your school. My DD knows exactly how she is doing in all her classes and what she needs to do to correct things.

[Anonymous]

Wait. Students have to make appointments and come after school to get individualized feedback on assignments? That's insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait. Students have to make appointments and come after school to get individualized feedback on assignments? That's insane.

No they can come during the designated period that schools have set up specifically for this purpose.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait. Students have to make appointments and come after school to get individualized feedback on assignments? That's insane.

No they can come during the designated period that schools have set up specifically for this purpose.

But that time isn't during class? Do they not get individualized feedback on papers and tests when they are handed back?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait. Students have to make appointments and come after school to get individualized feedback on assignments? That's insane.

No they can come during the designated period that schools have set up specifically for this purpose.

But that time isn't during class? Do they not get individualized feedback on papers and tests when they are handed back?

Did you read the thread at all. We can’t hand back tests and give correct answers because grading policies say kids can retake anything. So if we do that, we give them the rest, then the answers, then they just use that to retake it and get a 100%. We meet with kids during their study hall to individually discuss their concerns, questions and assignment to provide specific feedback for them that doesn’t compromise the integrity of the assessment thanks to the stupid grading policy.

Kids get feedback on their writing as well as the grade. I’d they want a more in depth conversation about that, again- they come to us in study hall. That is why there is an entire class block set aside in their schedule - to do things like that during their school day. We can’t do that for every kid during class or we’d never get to teach and not every kid needs that. Everyone’s needs to learn and get help have to be juggled- study hall is so kids who need more can come to us for more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I get it completely on the 150+ kids. I am a teacher. I taught in FCPS for many years.

My frustration stems from math class more than anything. In this class, the teacher is doing a few practice problems with kids and then gives them class time to complete homework. The teacher never moves around the room to see how kids are doing and students who are lost have no idea that they are actually lost until they take a test. Test grades only come back in SIS (weeks later) and students are not seeing any graded problems and have no idea where they are going wrong.

I'm a bit frustrated with English too. My kid spent days writing an essay and got no feedback other than a score in SIS. On the other hand, this teacher has made my kid enjoy English for the first time in a number of years - so he's doing something really well!

I feel for the teachers. I know they are overworked, underpaid, and worn out. But this total lack of feedback is frustrating when a kid is falling down and has no understanding of where they are going wrong. It puts a lot of onus on a KID if the only way to get any feedback is to make separate meetings with each teacher on a constant basis. This seems like a lot to ask.

If your HS aged kid can’t meet with their teacher and ask for help then they are in no way ready for the real world.

This is a ridiculous response. Don't listen to idiots like this OP. Your kid deserves feedback. That is not too much to ask a teacher to give, in fact it's their job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait. Students have to make appointments and come after school to get individualized feedback on assignments? That's insane.

No they can come during the designated period that schools have set up specifically for this purpose.

But that time isn't during class? Do they not get individualized feedback on papers and tests when they are handed back?

Did you read the thread at all. We can’t hand back tests and give correct answers because grading policies say kids can retake anything. So if we do that, we give them the rest, then the answers, then they just use that to retake it and get a 100%. We meet with kids during their study hall to individually discuss their concerns, questions and assignment to provide specific feedback for them that doesn’t compromise the integrity of the assessment thanks to the stupid grading policy.

Kids get feedback on their writing as well as the grade. I’d they want a more in depth conversation about that, again- they come to us in study hall. That is why there is an entire class block set aside in their schedule - to do things like that during their school day. We can’t do that for every kid during class or we’d never get to teach and not every kid needs that. Everyone’s needs to learn and get help have to be juggled- study hall is so kids who need more can come to us for more.

Sooo... teachers therefore can't give feedback on an essay? That makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait. Students have to make appointments and come after school to get individualized feedback on assignments? That's insane.

No they can come during the designated period that schools have set up specifically for this purpose.

But that time isn't during class? Do they not get individualized feedback on papers and tests when they are handed back?

Did you read the thread at all. We can’t hand back tests and give correct answers because grading policies say kids can retake anything. So if we do that, we give them the rest, then the answers, then they just use that to retake it and get a 100%. We meet with kids during their study hall to individually discuss their concerns, questions and assignment to provide specific feedback for them that doesn’t compromise the integrity of the assessment thanks to the stupid grading policy.

Kids get feedback on their writing as well as the grade. I’d they want a more in depth conversation about that, again- they come to us in study hall. That is why there is an entire class block set aside in their schedule - to do things like that during their school day. We can’t do that for every kid during class or we’d never get to teach and not every kid needs that. Everyone’s needs to learn and get help have to be juggled- study hall is so kids who need more can come to us for more.

Sooo... teachers therefore can't give feedback on an essay? That makes no sense.

I think private schools are accepting students. Read the dozens of post on this forum about this topic. Teachers have said they’re not giving detailed feedback because the kids don’t look at it and throw the paper away. If your student is one of those that once detailed feedback, they should meet with the teacher.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait. Students have to make appointments and come after school to get individualized feedback on assignments? That's insane.

No they can come during the designated period that schools have set up specifically for this purpose.

But that time isn't during class? Do they not get individualized feedback on papers and tests when they are handed back?

Did you read the thread at all. We can’t hand back tests and give correct answers because grading policies say kids can retake anything. So if we do that, we give them the rest, then the answers, then they just use that to retake it and get a 100%. We meet with kids during their study hall to individually discuss their concerns, questions and assignment to provide specific feedback for them that doesn’t compromise the integrity of the assessment thanks to the stupid grading policy.

Kids get feedback on their writing as well as the grade. I’d they want a more in depth conversation about that, again- they come to us in study hall. That is why there is an entire class block set aside in their schedule - to do things like that during their school day. We can’t do that for every kid during class or we’d never get to teach and not every kid needs that. Everyone’s needs to learn and get help have to be juggled- study hall is so kids who need more can come to us for more.

Sooo... teachers therefore can't give feedback on an essay? That makes no sense.

I think private schools are accepting students. Read the dozens of post on this forum about this topic. Teachers have said they’re not giving detailed feedback because the kids don’t look at it and throw the paper away. If your student is one of those that once detailed feedback, they should meet with the teacher.

So, someone who is struggling financially who has a kid who reads feedback is not allowed to understand why a 10 page paper was graded the way it was? Try again PP, it's not a good look for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait. Students have to make appointments and come after school to get individualized feedback on assignments? That's insane.

No they can come during the designated period that schools have set up specifically for this purpose.

But that time isn't during class? Do they not get individualized feedback on papers and tests when they are handed back?

Did you read the thread at all. We can’t hand back tests and give correct answers because grading policies say kids can retake anything. So if we do that, we give them the rest, then the answers, then they just use that to retake it and get a 100%. We meet with kids during their study hall to individually discuss their concerns, questions and assignment to provide specific feedback for them that doesn’t compromise the integrity of the assessment thanks to the stupid grading policy.

Kids get feedback on their writing as well as the grade. I’d they want a more in depth conversation about that, again- they come to us in study hall. That is why there is an entire class block set aside in their schedule - to do things like that during their school day. We can’t do that for every kid during class or we’d never get to teach and not every kid needs that. Everyone’s needs to learn and get help have to be juggled- study hall is so kids who need more can come to us for more.

Sooo... teachers therefore can't give feedback on an essay? That makes no sense.

I think private schools are accepting students. Read the dozens of post on this forum about this topic. Teachers have said they’re not giving detailed feedback because the kids don’t look at it and throw the paper away. If your student is one of those that once detailed feedback, they should meet with the teacher.

So, someone who is struggling financially who has a kid who reads feedback is not allowed to understand why a 10 page paper was graded the way it was? Try again PP, it's not a good look for you.

I'm a DP but come on... they can meet with the teacher during the study hall period! This has been said already.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait. Students have to make appointments and come after school to get individualized feedback on assignments? That's insane.

No they can come during the designated period that schools have set up specifically for this purpose.

But that time isn't during class? Do they not get individualized feedback on papers and tests when they are handed back?

Did you read the thread at all. We can’t hand back tests and give correct answers because grading policies say kids can retake anything. So if we do that, we give them the rest, then the answers, then they just use that to retake it and get a 100%. We meet with kids during their study hall to individually discuss their concerns, questions and assignment to provide specific feedback for them that doesn’t compromise the integrity of the assessment thanks to the stupid grading policy.

Kids get feedback on their writing as well as the grade. I’d they want a more in depth conversation about that, again- they come to us in study hall. That is why there is an entire class block set aside in their schedule - to do things like that during their school day. We can’t do that for every kid during class or we’d never get to teach and not every kid needs that. Everyone’s needs to learn and get help have to be juggled- study hall is so kids who need more can come to us for more.

Sooo... teachers therefore can't give feedback on an essay? That makes no sense.

I think private schools are accepting students. Read the dozens of post on this forum about this topic. Teachers have said they’re not giving detailed feedback because the kids don’t look at it and throw the paper away. If your student is one of those that once detailed feedback, they should meet with the teacher.

So, someone who is struggling financially who has a kid who reads feedback is not allowed to understand why a 10 page paper was graded the way it was? Try again PP, it's not a good look for you.

I'm a DP but come on... they can meet with the teacher during the study hall period! This has been said already.

And it’s an unacceptable solution. Teachers need to grade properly and give feedback. Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: And it’s an unacceptable solution. Teachers need to grade properly and give feedback. Period.

You either didn't read the whole thread, or you are simply not paying attention. We can't grade the way we used to, for all the reasons mentioned previously. Grading IS being done "properly." Feedback IS being given. It's just being done different than when you went to school.

You don't have to agree with the way it's being done, but that's the way is IS now. So...kids (and parents, if necessary) need to be more proactive about asking questions in class, or getting to that study hall, or making that appointment with the teacher, to get feedback.

[Anonymous]

^ differently

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sucks. The reality is what you want is not unreasonable except for the amount of students teachers have makes it really hard to do that. They can’t go over test answers as a class because unfortunately kids get endless retakes so they’d just be giving test answers out and then kids would ask to retake the test with them. They can’t grade homework as summative. Essays, I agree, ideally they get feedback- for my students, I give a grade and then offer them the ability to schedule a conference with me during their study hall or before or after school to discuss the grade and provide feedback. This would enable me to target specific feedback to the kids who really want it rather than expending hours giving it to kids who don’t read it. Nobody has ever taken me up on that though so I do think it’s worth considering you the parent might want the feedback more than the kid, which I get, but which won’t ultimately matter. They have to be the one to want it in order to actually apply it.

Another HS teacher... +100

Students have an open invitation to go over assignments/essays/tests me with during LS or in an after school appointment. Only 2-3 of them have opted to do so this year.

My DS meets with teachers, but frequently he has conflicts with needing to meet with other teachers. For example, his Physics teacher has labs going on for the two weeks of AP exams. If you miss the lab, have to make it up. He’s in the middle of making up labs right now, but also needs to meet with his AP Hist teacher on something as well as the CS teacher for help on an assignment.

Thankfully his English teacher did give written feedback on a recent assignment so no need for an extra meeting. Plus he’s a bus rider. Only pointing out that it’s not that easy for these kids to meet with all the teachers that require teacher meetings to gather their feedback. Sometimes the kids have to prioritize teacher meetings and meeting to collect feedback falls to the bottom

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait. Students have to make appointments and come after school to get individualized feedback on assignments? That's insane.

No they can come during the designated period that schools have set up specifically for this purpose.

But that time isn't during class? Do they not get individualized feedback on papers and tests when they are handed back?

Did you read the thread at all. We can’t hand back tests and give correct answers because grading policies say kids can retake anything. So if we do that, we give them the rest, then the answers, then they just use that to retake it and get a 100%. We meet with kids during their study hall to individually discuss their concerns, questions and assignment to provide specific feedback for them that doesn’t compromise the integrity of the assessment thanks to the stupid grading policy.

Kids get feedback on their writing as well as the grade. I’d they want a more in depth conversation about that, again- they come to us in study hall. That is why there is an entire class block set aside in their schedule - to do things like that during their school day. We can’t do that for every kid during class or we’d never get to teach and not every kid needs that. Everyone’s needs to learn and get help have to be juggled- study hall is so kids who need more can come to us for more.

Sooo... teachers therefore can't give feedback on an essay? That makes no sense.

I think private schools are accepting students. Read the dozens of post on this forum about this topic. Teachers have said they’re not giving detailed feedback because the kids don’t look at it and throw the paper away. If your student is one of those that once detailed feedback, they should meet with the teacher.

So, someone who is struggling financially who has a kid who reads feedback is not allowed to understand why a 10 page paper was graded the way it was? Try again PP, it's not a good look for you.

They are…they can ask the teacher. Several teachers on this board have said their is a chance for them to do that at school.