Whew, second day of conferences complete. It’s been so wonderful to meet student’s parents. I’ve met most of them now after a day of conferences from 1:00-7:30 without any breaks. I’ve been able to see the different levels of involvement parents have, how serious they are about their child’s performance, and how agreeable they are with what’s going on in class and the work students do at home. It has been a pleasant learning experience, but after being at school for over twelve hours today, I see why some teachers dread it. It’s long, repetitive, and a bit draining. However, it is quite necessary to have this nearly mandated parent-teacher interaction.
Genetics is continuing to prove challenging to teach and learn. We’ve taken quizzes and the results have not been too high. I will say that each child improved greatly comparing pre and post vocabulary quizzes; probably by an average of 25%. However, my goal is 100% passing, and we haven’t reached that yet. Also, we took a quiz, measuring their ability to differentiate mitosis and meiosis today, and the results told me that we need at least one more day of work on those two topics. I’m trying to hit every possible approach I can to reach all students, and it’s getting to be pretty challenging for my creativity to come up with re-teaching methods, but I know it’s a necessary lesson for me to learn.
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