Final editions....

So here we are on the last day of finals; the last exam is to be given, and grades entered, and a host of end-of-the-year paperwork.

You would think it is time for a break, right? (Be quiet in the back with the snarky comments, experienced teachers in the back).

Not so much. Monday, the grad classes begin. At least it is something in technology, and not something that will prove totally useless...

On that final note, watching these students taking the final exam has proved to at least be entertaining. Before I can describe the scene, a short description of the final would prove very useful. We use a departmental final here, allowing for every student at a particular level to be assessed by the same standard.  With that said, I've tailored every assessment we've done in this class to match the format, taught my students standardized tests as a genre so as t allow them to decode them, and even spent the last week specifically reviewing and reteaching material from across the semester to make sure that none of it was unfamiliar.

For some, you would be convinced that this was the first time they had seen this material, ever. One student in particular was repeatedly sighing, widening her eyes at every single question, and acting as if each and every one of them was a massive ordeal, a surprise attack upon their sensibilities the likes of which had never been seen before and would never be seen again.

This was for English II CP.

It is as it is. Grad classes and summer preparation here I come.