The morning is under way!
We handed out pre-printed emergency cards that are to go home, corrected if necessary and returned to 1st hour teacher on Tuesday.
We handed out IDs to 9-11 graders. 12th graders will get theirs in the media center on Tuesday.
And we handed out new schedules. A little on the rough side but not terrible. As it happened there were about an equal number of 9, 10, 11, and 12 grade schedules with missing or double class periods. Those we are taking care of period by period.
It appears -- but this is still a work in progress -- it appears that some of the changes from two weeks ago did not get reflected on the new schedules. Not sure why that happened.
But we are moving along. For the almost 1,800 students that are supposed to be in class each period, we have about 50 who are in need of some type of adjustment.
Yes, some teachers have a good number of different teachers. However, the classes are of nice size and each class has a caring and talented teacher in it. In the long-run (by tomorrow) things will return to a routine and we can move past the drama.
more by the end of the day.
2 comments:
I would like to know, for the students who are being transferred into classes with different teachers, how will the grades they have earned in the last three weeks be transferred? Hopefully there will be a way to do this because it isn't really fair if those students don't get the benefit of the grades (points) for the easier assignments that are usually given at the beginning of the year. If these grades don't transfer how do you balance that against the students who are keeping their grades and points because they were able to remain in the same class or with the same teacher?
Good question. The first three-week grades will be transferred to the new teacher or the new period. In most case students were counseled about their three-grade last week prior to the switch.
Teachers started moving grades yesterday will continue this morning. We want to be fair to all the students also.
This first couple days the teachers are determining who is where. In most cases that is fairly easy because the students are within a day or two of one another. In a couple cases we are working to determine what are the important differences.
Within the next two days this will be all settled.
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