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70/30

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/12/animal-friends-forever_n_5087661.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

Thanks to this Huffingtoon Post article, I have pictures to start my Notebook presentation for the next two weeks.

Tonight was parent/teacher conferences, and I love that the students are part of this experience.  As one young man and his father were sitting at the desk, I realized the son's problem.  "Tell me you're not one of those kids," I said and pointed at him.  Basically, he's a bright kid that's figured out doing homework and other (formative-30%) assignments is a waste of his time since he always does well to quite well on his (summative- 70%).  It does move his grade a little lower, but he still has basically As and Bs.  The father asked me what one did with "those kids."  First, I told him, be thankful he was smart enough to figure it out and use it for his advantage.  It takes intelligence to make this work.  As I looked at his son, I also told the father that his son needed to learn that it still causes the grades to be a little lower which in his case was causing frustration.  When we went to 70/30, I thought this would be a problem, but it's a problem I like to see.

Hey, thanks...
1) decent parents at conferences
2) wonderful, cute animals
3) hard working students

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LH said…
I like that the kids and the parents are there at the conferences.

2:33 AM
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