I want to say when i attended MCPS high school in the early 2000s the semester grade was like 40% MP1 40% MP2 20% Final exam.

Although i dont believe they used the actual scores so it was likely some weird formula using only letter grades

Anonymous wrote:If you want less graded assignments, the best thing to do is to bring back midterms and final exams. These should count for 50% of the grade for the semester.

I agree. MCPS grads regularly cite lack of final exams as the area where they could have been better prepared for college.

I'd also like to see a sliding scale introduced on homework. It should count for more in MS and 9th grade and taper to less in 12th grade. This would give younger students an incentive to build good study habits.

Anonymous wrote:If you want less graded assignments, the best thing to do is to bring back midterms and final exams. These should count for 50% of the grade for the semester.

I agree with having finals and fewer busywork assignments. I think there'd be revolt at 50% of the grade, but it could still be done and would hopefully reduce the tedious time-consuming grading workload for teachers too.

If you want less graded assignments, the best thing to do is to bring back midterms and final exams. These should count for 50% of the grade for the semester.

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Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

The teachers can't even manage it! And the kids have up to 8 teachers to deal with!

Wow - the daintiness of kids these days. Imagine that somehow, for decades, kids have figured it out... and had to deal with the consequences of real grades. I think it is mom and dad who don't have the margin, and who overbook their kids in activities.

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Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

It's called "spaced repetition" and necessary for development of skills and thinking. Can you imagine how many kids would prepare for class if we followed your advice?

The repetition isn't spaced, doofus.

Well, I can see that your education should definitely be replicated by the school district!

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Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

The teachers can't even manage it! And the kids have up to 8 teachers to deal with!

Anonymous wrote:Hate to be this guy but I enjoy doing the extra things. I am new at this so I make sure I spend time outside of work reading the books ahead or on pace with the class. I create videos of read alouds of the books and summarizing the events. I write sample papers where I provide details of everything that is expected so my students have accurate modeling. Yeah it takes me a few hours every day/ week but ultimately if it improves my work and helps my students then I don’t mind doing it.

Publish that stuff online and you'll be a millionaire.

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Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

It's called "spaced repetition" and necessary for development of skills and thinking. Can you imagine how many kids would prepare for class if we followed your advice?

The repetition isn't spaced, doofus.

Hate to be this guy but I enjoy doing the extra things. I am new at this so I make sure I spend time outside of work reading the books ahead or on pace with the class. I create videos of read alouds of the books and summarizing the events. I write sample papers where I provide details of everything that is expected so my students have accurate modeling. Yeah it takes me a few hours every day/ week but ultimately if it improves my work and helps my students then I don’t mind doing it.

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Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

😂😂😂Kids grades would absolutely fall off the cliff. Can you imagine these kids and parents if they had 5 assignments per quarter? A)They wouldn’t be able to pass anything because they would have retained nothing, and B) There would be no assignments for them to make up any low grades.

This would require a whole educational and culture shift. It’s needed, but until I see real commitment to actually meaningfully changing US education or at least the whole of MCPS, I would not suggest limiting assignments.

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Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

We are required to have 9 All Tasks(90% of the grade) and like 8 Practice Prep assignments(10% of the grade). Only 2 of these need to be designated as reassessable assignments.

Thats like two assignments a week. If you think completing two tasks in 5 days is too much work then I dont know what to tell you.

I do think that 2 assignments a week for each of 8 classes, and each assignment being a different random thing is a lot. College is definitely not like that. I think we should have both higher standards and also fewer assignments, because I think the expectations for high grades also leads to a ton of busywork.

You haven't been to college recently... yes, it is like that.

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Anonymous wrote:I suggest that MCPS stop accepting late work or missing assignments or do-overs. Offer a couple of extras or gap-fillers at the end of the quarter to make up missing points and move on. Students are showing up at college totally unable to cope with deadlines or rules, and we are the ones creating the bad habits in real time.

OK, but there are also too many assignments and MS/HS feels like work (horrible micromanagement) for young kids. Just give them 1 project and 2 tests per quarter and a few HW assignments, why do they need millions of assessments, retakes, due dates, deadlines, etc. It'd be hard to adults to manage. I feel kind of bad for the kids.

It's called "spaced repetition" and necessary for development of skills and thinking. Can you imagine how many kids would prepare for class if we followed your advice?

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers contracted hours are also misreported every week to say 40 hours including one lunch break. Many times we can't eat and we do over 60 to 80 hours with double unpaid overtime and admin still bullies us to make us inflate grades and deflate crime reports. It's a clu$t3rfcker

What would happen if people started to report actual time worked? Reporting the hours would not make people get paid more, as the job is exempt from overtime/comp time. But it would make clear how much time is actually being worked and, if all teachers made a habit of doing this, would help build the case for raising salaries.

+10000 I’ve been saying this for years. Either put down the correct hours, or stop doing all the extra work.