My son thought Ms holeman 9 out of 10, but many students complained about her bad grade on facebook. Her class is very hard.

Anonymous wrote:For the previous poster, Holman's IBET group is very tough meaning other two teachers?

Holman,geiger and Lang boswell - any inputs on this IBET Group?

For the previous poster, Holman's IBET group is very tough meaning other two teachers?

Holman is a good teacher, but her IBET group is very tough.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is in Larson, Harris, Seyler IBET and according to upperclassmen she should run for the hill! Any input?

PP from above whose kid had DelCerro IBET last year. Seyer was the Design Tech teacher in that IBET. Does not teach, and definately does not grade the assignments. 3rd quarter, he entered zeros in for 3 of DCs labs, and a C- as the quarter grade. DC emailed and asked why, and he said that grades were due, and he hadn't graded the labs yet, so zeros were "placeholders". The grade was not corrected until after school let out 4th quarter. And the robot project (which you will come to hate 4th quarter) was a clusterf**k.

So, it's a bad teacher in DT. But a new IBET configuration (last year was DelCerro and Lago with Seyler). Don't know much about the other 2. Getting good Bio and English teachers are a lot more important in the long run. Good luck!

Oh wow the kids weren't kidding then! It's one thing to be a tough teacher, but quite another to be incompetent and lazy. Ugh! Thanks for your input! DD heard her Bio teacher isn't much better. He puts students to sleep during his lectures.

Out of the 3, Harris is great teacher. Puts in lot of effort with students and gives them more responsibility on the work assignments and communicates a lot(mostly keeps whole IBET project going and together. if it weren't for her, kids' final IBET project would be disaster). Seyler feedback above is correct and to the point. Larson knows his subject(Bio) but barely teaches. Students are on their own and his tests and quizzes are all over the place (kids just have to memorize text book a lot). To top it off he is also teaching Chemistry (which is not even his core subject) in 10th grade. So one can only imagine what those 10th graders will learn in his class (Sigh!)

Any input on Holman? Thanks

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Anonymous wrote:DD is in Larson, Harris, Seyler IBET and according to upperclassmen she should run for the hill! Any input?

PP from above whose kid had DelCerro IBET last year. Seyer was the Design Tech teacher in that IBET. Does not teach, and definately does not grade the assignments. 3rd quarter, he entered zeros in for 3 of DCs labs, and a C- as the quarter grade. DC emailed and asked why, and he said that grades were due, and he hadn't graded the labs yet, so zeros were "placeholders". The grade was not corrected until after school let out 4th quarter. And the robot project (which you will come to hate 4th quarter) was a clusterf**k.

So, it's a bad teacher in DT. But a new IBET configuration (last year was DelCerro and Lago with Seyler). Don't know much about the other 2. Getting good Bio and English teachers are a lot more important in the long run. Good luck!

Oh wow the kids weren't kidding then! It's one thing to be a tough teacher, but quite another to be incompetent and lazy. Ugh! Thanks for your input! DD heard her Bio teacher isn't much better. He puts students to sleep during his lectures.

Out of the 3, Harris is great teacher. Puts in lot of effort with students and gives them more responsibility on the work assignments and communicates a lot(mostly keeps whole IBET project going and together. if it weren't for her, kids' final IBET project would be disaster). Seyler feedback above is correct and to the point. Larson knows his subject(Bio) but barely teaches. Students are on their own and his tests and quizzes are all over the place (kids just have to memorize text book a lot). To top it off he is also teaching Chemistry (which is not even his core subject) in 10th grade. So one can only imagine what those 10th graders will learn in his class (Sigh!)

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Anonymous wrote:DD is in Larson, Harris, Seyler IBET and according to upperclassmen she should run for the hill! Any input?

PP from above whose kid had DelCerro IBET last year. Seyer was the Design Tech teacher in that IBET. Does not teach, and definately does not grade the assignments. 3rd quarter, he entered zeros in for 3 of DCs labs, and a C- as the quarter grade. DC emailed and asked why, and he said that grades were due, and he hadn't graded the labs yet, so zeros were "placeholders". The grade was not corrected until after school let out 4th quarter. And the robot project (which you will come to hate 4th quarter) was a clusterf**k.

So, it's a bad teacher in DT. But a new IBET configuration (last year was DelCerro and Lago with Seyler). Don't know much about the other 2. Getting good Bio and English teachers are a lot more important in the long run. Good luck!

Oh wow the kids weren't kidding then! It's one thing to be a tough teacher, but quite another to be incompetent and lazy. Ugh! Thanks for your input! DD heard her Bio teacher isn't much better. He puts students to sleep during his lectures.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is in Larson, Harris, Seyler IBET and according to upperclassmen she should run for the hill! Any input?

PP from above whose kid had DelCerro IBET last year. Seyer was the Design Tech teacher in that IBET. Does not teach, and definately does not grade the assignments. 3rd quarter, he entered zeros in for 3 of DCs labs, and a C- as the quarter grade. DC emailed and asked why, and he said that grades were due, and he hadn't graded the labs yet, so zeros were "placeholders". The grade was not corrected until after school let out 4th quarter. And the robot project (which you will come to hate 4th quarter) was a clusterf**k.

So, it's a bad teacher in DT. But a new IBET configuration (last year was DelCerro and Lago with Seyler). Don't know much about the other 2. Getting good Bio and English teachers are a lot more important in the long run. Good luck!

I'd be conferencing with the principal on this issue.

At my DDs school, teachers are required to input grades within 2 weeks of the due date.

BTDT. Although under the advocacy guidelines, it is counselor then AP. Nothing changed, and the admin shrugged. And they are not interested in hearing from parents. At TJ, it's on the kids. We got nowhere.

Maybe the new principal will be better. But there are already concerns about her. She's been in the school since July. Kids have been there for summer school, then sports and band practice, etc. and no one has seen her. Parents are starting to get upset that she hasn't stopped by some of the band and sports practices, parents meeting, etc to introduce herself, didn't stop in during summer school lunch and say hello, etc. nothing fancy-- just walking around the school and saying hello to the kids already there. And a lot of kids are there everyday now for various things. Anyway, parents are pretty upset that she isn't visible. I don't know any kid who has met her.

I hope she is more involved. TJ needs a hands on admin.

IBET stands for integrated Biology, English, and Technology. English and Technology are easy. Biology is the killer. Almost every Biology teacher was difficult. They had quit every week after assigned students to read 5 to 10 universities published articles and only gave five questions from the articles. Not many students did well from the beginning. However, after a while, students knew the kind of questions would be asked in the quit, then they did well after the first quarter of the school year. I remembered my got a D- for his first interim grade report (can you imagine how panic we were. He was an A student in middle school), but he got an A at the end of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is in Larson, Harris, Seyler IBET and according to upperclassmen she should run for the hill! Any input?

PP from above whose kid had DelCerro IBET last year. Seyer was the Design Tech teacher in that IBET. Does not teach, and definately does not grade the assignments. 3rd quarter, he entered zeros in for 3 of DCs labs, and a C- as the quarter grade. DC emailed and asked why, and he said that grades were due, and he hadn't graded the labs yet, so zeros were "placeholders". The grade was not corrected until after school let out 4th quarter. And the robot project (which you will come to hate 4th quarter) was a clusterf**k.

So, it's a bad teacher in DT. But a new IBET configuration (last year was DelCerro and Lago with Seyler). Don't know much about the other 2. Getting good Bio and English teachers are a lot more important in the long run. Good luck!

I'd be conferencing with the principal on this issue.

At my DDs school, teachers are required to input grades within 2 weeks of the due date.

Anonymous wrote:DD is in Larson, Harris, Seyler IBET and according to upperclassmen she should run for the hill! Any input?

PP from above whose kid had DelCerro IBET last year. Seyer was the Design Tech teacher in that IBET. Does not teach, and definately does not grade the assignments. 3rd quarter, he entered zeros in for 3 of DCs labs, and a C- as the quarter grade. DC emailed and asked why, and he said that grades were due, and he hadn't graded the labs yet, so zeros were "placeholders". The grade was not corrected until after school let out 4th quarter. And the robot project (which you will come to hate 4th quarter) was a clusterf**k.

So, it's a bad teacher in DT. But a new IBET configuration (last year was DelCerro and Lago with Seyler). Don't know much about the other 2. Getting good Bio and English teachers are a lot more important in the long run. Good luck!

DD is in Larson, Harris, Seyler IBET and according to upperclassmen she should run for the hill! Any input?

My son is in Lang IBET. Any input on that? Thanks.

WhaI IBET Group did your kid get? I think they mix the teachers them up, so they are pretty even. Each one was a reallytrong teacher and a weak on.

Last year, my kid was Del Cerro IBET, and a very mixed bag. One teacher who was a full quarter behind in grading and did not teach. Some thing just never got graded. Very frustrating to look in SIS a few days before the end of the quarter and have no grades posted. My kid magically got an A- for the year, with points randoming appearing at the end which him up. Who knows? He didn't complain.

One teacher who was very tough from the get go, and he had a D+ faster the first month. Mostly from quizzes, so not many points overall. He got better and figured out what the teacher was looking for. Once some "big" tests and projects were done, the grades came up. Ended up with a strong grade and this was his favorite teacher.

One teacher who was great at teaching (I thought-- teacher taught my major area from college), and my kid learned a lot. But assigned the teacher big projects without ruberics, which caused problems. I think she like my kid because my kid loved the class, and she gavechances to redo major assignments for full points.

So-- a mixed bag. The kids say fewer than five kids left last year during school. More likely for kids to finish the year and decide not to come back. I have not heard, with all the carpool running I do with kids from different IBETS, about a "bad IBT".

I do know, for my kid at least, grades came up a lot after 1st quarter. So, don't panic if grades start out low on the first couple of assignments.

For us, 1st quarter was a B- Bio, A- DT, B- English. Ended up with a B+ A-, A. Since DC is not aiming to be top 10%, we were very pleased. As in CS, Language, PE and high Bs in math-- and that looks like a successful year to me. To the Stanford or Bust crowd-- maybe not.

Butt-- if you name your IBET, people will chime in. But I think the "terrible IBET that makes kids quit is like the 3rd floor swimming pool-- a myth.

DC is a rising freshman at TJ and just got the class schedule on line. As per what other kids are saying, DC is in the "bad IBET group" - ie the one with either the worst or hardest teachers? I know luck always decides whether you get a good or bad teacher in any given subject, but is it true that there is one "bad group" and the school does not do anything about it from year to year?

I do remember that a friend's daughter left TJ in sophmore year due to a " bad IBET group". If all of this is true, we are in for a very interesting year! (DC also has a lot of non-school extra curriculars.)