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Today I join my fellow bloggers in "serving up a slice"
to the Tuesday Slice of Life sponsored by Two Writing Teachers.
We're doing something new this year - reading screenings in 6th grade. It's something I've begged for ever since I started teaching at this grade level in middle school. I always "kind of knew" where my students were in reading, but I never had data to back up my assumptions. Now we find ourselves in the position of administering a screening tool to students from both of our blocks in one day, three times a year. The district brings in subs for the day and we pull our students out of classes to complete the screenings. I like that I was able to screen all of my own students this time, but talk about mind-numbing! I'm not sure how elementary school teachers do this. I want to create a fractured tale from the three samples our students read. I know I can't, but it appeals to the writer in me. It's certainly something to keep me chuckling as I listen to 50+ renditions of the same stories. How about it? How do you keep your sanity when administering the same assessment tool over and over and over and over and over?
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
It was a mind numbing day!
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You can't possibly remain mentally intact in that situation!!!! Elementary teachers tend to space out...but then at MOST they have 5-6 kids on the same level!!!!!!!!!!!! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteOh my, I don't see how you kept going, Ramona! Unless we really think there's a problem, we only do informal readings, a few at a time. At least I hope this was helpful!
ReplyDeleteI'd lose my mind, Ramona! And that passage will no doubt be going over and over again in your mind for weeks now...:(
ReplyDeleteYikes! I can't imagine the same passage for every student in one day. I hope your brain gets a bit of a rest now.
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