It's extra credit time again...need your recommendations
May 1st, 2006, 04:51 AM
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Well I am a genius teacher who doesn't want kids with B plusses to sic their angry parents on me, so every year I allow them to read a novel for one grade of extra credit.
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"extra credit" is degrading your education system. the very top students get rated as better than perfect(????) and the next tier get rated as perfect.
...and as you rather unashamingly admit, all because you are afraid to give the student the grade he earned for the coursework. over the long run, i think this tendency to over-praise and inflate grades will make your students less able to compete with students from other countries who are generally graded more competitively.
Well I am a genius teacher who doesn't want kids with B plusses to sic their angry parents on me, so every year I allow them to read a novel for one grade of extra credit.
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"extra credit" is degrading your education system. the very top students get rated as better than perfect(????) and the next tier get rated as perfect.
...and as you rather unashamingly admit, all because you are afraid to give the student the grade he earned for the coursework. over the long run, i think this tendency to over-praise and inflate grades will make your students less able to compete with students from other countries who are generally graded more competitively.
May 1st, 2006, 05:29 PM
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That's hardly fair, walkinaround! Teacher's post was obviously tongue in cheek, and even there is a <i>some</i> truth to it it's not really your place, is it, to criticize her for assigning books to read in English? Sheesh.
(Admit to being very tired of hearing "our" students compared to students of some mythical "other country." Yawn.)
(Admit to being very tired of hearing "our" students compared to students of some mythical "other country." Yawn.)
May 1st, 2006, 07:00 PM
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Although it's not great literature, Death of a Nationalist, by Rebecca Pawel, is an interesting mystery that has as its setting Madrid after the Civil War. I thought it did an excellent job of conveying the situation in Spain at the time, especially the tensions between nationalists and republicans.
