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Teachers- are you strict? (give lots of homework, hard tests)

LIAngelLIAngel member
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With your students?  I remember some teachers I had, I just wanted to cringe and others I was like "Yay I got Mrs So and So for English".   The ones I didn't like I had a hard time picturing them with families and kids of their own (if they mentioned their kids). Kind of like you can't imagine your parents as children (even though they obviously were at one point).   

 

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Re: Teachers- are you strict? (give lots of homework, hard tests)

  • smileesmilee member

    I'd like to think that I challenge my students, but I don't really believe that is done with lots of homework or with hard tests- necessarily.  

    My students have one standard homework assignment each night- and that is to read for at least 1/2 hour.   In my eyes, reading is the keys to the castle.  EVERY subject relies on your comprehension and thinking skills.

    My kids know ( or learn) that I absolutely have high expectations for them, but I differentiate so much of the time, my kids are often reading different books, working on different assignments, and working at or trying to improve their pace.  Some are ready for Shakespeare, some still need Diary of a Wimpy kid.  The key is to meet them where they are and push them to go further- which means they will all end up in different places.

     

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  • mrsolsenk12mrsolsenk12

    I taught lower elementary not middle or high school so my answer probably doesn't count. I wasn't. My kids (k-2) had homework but plenty of time to get it done in class. If they went home with homework it was easy.

    One year i taught 7th grade science (the oldest i have taught) and i think i was pretty easy. Minimal homework. For tests, i gave study guides which was the test questions mixed up and the answers mixed up (so they couldn't memorize it).  I gave them every chance to do well, those who didn't, it was their own fault.

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  • BoilerSuzBoilerSuz

    My subject isn't homework heavy.  We do lots of practical applications in class.  I have high expectations for performance and behavior but like to imagine I have a good balance.  Students in my classes are expected to work bell to bell to get work done in classes verses having to take it home.

    I do have to watch over talking about my family.  All my students know I'm a mom first, teacher second. I openly talk about infertility even showing embie pics and bringing out the needles from DS's creation!

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  • schoolsoutbrideschoolsoutbride

    I teach honors, AP and IB high school classes, so it kind of goes with the territory that there's a lot of work.  Mostly reading. Lots of annotations. Lots of essay tests.  In my IB classes I run a 82-85 average, but those are super hard workers. In my 9th grade honors classes, it's more like a 75%.

    But I don't think I'm strict in a mean sense.  

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