Grade retention

For my curriculum placement I was at Granger Elementary School in Agawam MA. I got the opportunity to work in a special ed classroom with the wonderful Mrs. Alvord. My field experience this semester I would say has to be my favorite placement yet. Some of the reasons why this is my best placement yet is because first I absolutely love my teacher, the kids have been awesome, and working with them has been so much fun and rewarding. My beliefs about teaching learning were confirmed as a result of this

clock is ticking down to the last few minutes and I am sitting at my desk just now starting the assignment. What do I do to get in this sticky situation you ask? I do everything but the thing I’m supposed to do. Although I would have earned better grades from doing things days before it’s due, I’ve mastered the technique of putting it off till the last minute. It’s a bad habit I picked up, but not one that i’ve tried to quit. RECEIVING THE ASSIGNMENT Procrastinating comes in a few stages, the first

and push me to work harder in school. My academic drive and diligence as a student are manifested in my scholastic achievements. I was presented with the Most Outstanding Student Achievement Award when I graduated 8th grade from Mountain Home School. I currently have a grade point average of 4.0, which has been sustained throughout my years of high school thus far. Last year, as a sophomore, I received three Academic Achievement Awards for Religion, Chemistry, and Spanish 1. I also took three

was time to exchange our do now’s to be graded by our partners . I got back my grade and I was upset because I couldn’t even get 1 question right. I began to wonder if I will ever be successful in this class and I was even thinking about whether or not it was a good choice to come to America to become a failure. Looking around at my classmates I saw that they were understanding the teacher and passing with good grades but I wasn’t. I remember back in my

Rising Grades: Grade inflation is causing an A to become an average grade. Students who are good are hard to differentiate from those who are excellent. Grade inflation in private school and expensive colleges is even more extreme, to some extent causing those who pay the most to receive the highest grades. Grade inflation is thought to help students by rewarding any effort and decreasing stress, but grade inflation instead makes grades worthless and some attempts to fight it are detrimental to students

I am an Indian who was born and raised in America. This means that I have been affected by both American and Indian cultures. One of the biggest lesson imparted on me from Indian culture was about language. In Indian culture, a person shows respect to everyone. We call adults not related to us uncle and auntie as a sign of respect towards our elders. We even call kids older than us Chetan and Chachi in the part of India that my family comes from since they are technically our elders as well. Since

feeling lost. In my own experience, I bit off more than I could chew when I decided to take AP Language. I went into my junior year thinking I was going to be an amazing student and stay on top of my assignments and once they started stacking my grade started falling. I thought the class wasn’t going to be a challenge for me because I left my sophomore honors class with an A. Boy was I wrong, half of the time the teacher would blow my mind with knowledge then leave me in a “what just happened” mental

procedures according to the needs of the class within reason. In short, academic decorum is put in place so students can be better and teachers can teach them in a way that fits their (the student’s) needs. Narrative Self Analysis: It was in the sixth grade when I realized how important school was. I was ten or eleven when my dad took me to visit Utah State University, where both of my parents received their bachelor's degrees. I had always taken school seriously and tried my hardest, but it was in sixth

then we were set to do it on our own, then given a grade and that was it. I always wanted more feedback than what I got so with the next writing assignment I could do better than the previous. After reading this chapter three main content areas that stuck out to me were; what do grades mean, objectivity in assessment, and how to make assessments reliable. What do grades mean? It seems that many people have a different idea of what a letter grade or percent means, to some it is just one thing that

and forced me to reevaluate my whole thought process. Even though, that was hard to hear, I am glad I was told to do so. My writing changed completely into something more sophisticated that also improved my fluency. I did receive a grade that was average, but that grade was the starting point to continue to progress my writing in his class. My second paper for his class was an argument, which I chose to write about the shuttle at Regis. This time around my weakness was not immature writing with