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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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[/quote]

English teacher here. Please show some appreciation to that teacher for the written feedback. That teacher had to do it at home on their own time.

I’m an English teacher. My alarm is already set for 5:30am tomorrow (Saturday) so I can grade essays. I’ll probably spend 10-12 hours this weekend grading essays. That’s on top of planning for next week, another 2-4 hours.

All this arguing about feedback? Teachers aren’t given time at work to actually do it. We are teaching. All feedback is done at home. A high school English teacher can regularly work 65+ hours a week, mostly because of feedback.

Please thank that teacher. [/quote]

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