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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't like the ability of teachers to enter grades so late.  I really think they need to provide feedback early and often.  By waiting 2-3 weeks, kids don't know if they're on track or not.  [/quote]

Technically we are supposed to grade and return work within 10 school days per the grading policy.  If an assignment is turned in late, then we get 10 days from when it was turned in.  [/quote]

I believe central office is not enforcing this rule because they know that there is not enough time in the school day to get grading done and most teachers do it on their own time [/quote]

I believe they are using this first year to collect data to see if the policy is effective rather than enforcement.[/quote]

The kids find it a little frustrating when some teachers are really strict about turning things in, but then are really lax about grading.  I totally understand that a teacher may have trouble adhering to the 10 day deadline, but if so, I feel like they should be more understanding when a teen has trouble adhering to a deadline that if often only a few days.

One of my top wishes for MCPS is to give the teachers more time to grade -- whether that's days off or half days or even just saying -- look, its fine if once a week you put on a Ken Burns documentary or whatever the equivalent is for your class, or let the class get caught up on homework while you get caught up on grading.  There's an old saying that you learn more from your mistakes than from what you do right --- but that's only true if you get relatively prompt feedback on your mistakes.[/quote]

True but if you look at the calendar thread, everyone is screaming how it is ridiculous for teachers to have one day off each quarter for grading, planning and finalizing report cards. All of these things take time. 
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I agree.  I think it is really short-sighted of the parents who take that position.  It's more about the quality, rather than the quantity.  I'd rather 3 days of substantive teaching with substantive feedback over 5 days of teachers walking through a power point with no time to actually give kids feedback on the work they do or figure out if they need to be covering some material in more depth or adjusting the class material based on student interest/ability.  
My second wish for MCPS is to somehow minimize the admin BS that I hear teachers quietly complaining about -- the useless trainings and so forth.  But I don't know how one does that...

i feel like once they give the teachers what they need to be successful, they could then start enforcing some accountability against the teachers who aren't very good.  (Which I think is a minority, but notable minority, of the teaching staff.) But with the current setup, everyone is so stressed out that it's hard to enforce standards -- you risk just driving away the good teachers who are really trying.[/quote]

Completely agree. You nailed it [/quote]

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