As you are grading and fretting about students' scores, how hard they tried, and how much work you have to do, remember this:
DO NOT CARE MORE ABOUT STUDENTS' GRADES THAN THEY DO.
Just don't.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and pour me another one.
Beaker Ben
Booya! Sound advice. Merry Christmas back at ya, Beaker Ben, and CMers everywhere!
ReplyDeleteI'll drink to that. Repeatedly.
ReplyDeleteThis is so, so important. Just because you were a straight-A student who freaked out over a single A- or AB doesn't mean that your students won't be perfectly happen with their C+ or BC.
ReplyDeleteGive them the grade they earned and see what happens.
My students would not be happy with a b or c and I would hear about it from the day we got back until- who knows. I also have obnoxious colleagues who would pester me to death ("but imagine how they feel"- vomit). That being said, by the nature of what I teach (hamster pneumonia awareness 301), I feel that they had better know what they are talking about or hamsters will die! So I grade harder and get flack from my colleagues AND students. Oh well, no hamster deaths on my clock!
ReplyDeleteI would also add:
ReplyDeleteDon't care more about their grades than they did about actually doing the work/studying/coming to class.
because I have quite a few students who care VERY MUCH about their grades, despite the fact that they had no interest in actually EARNING those grades. Funny how suddenly class is so important once they see that C- (or B+)!