Today I wanted to share something interesting, but, alas, I am literally buried under. Under tests.
Every year starts the same - the whole department conducts entry skill tests: Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking.
I think you can easily guess that evaluating some of those is more troublesome and headache-inducing than others.
RANT ON
What I hate about checking Writing and Speaking is not even the fact that I don't like correcting mistakes (I do like it, duh! I am a teacher!). What I loathe from the bottom of my black-black heart is making.
For me making means consulting the criteria (which our students are usually made aware of in advance), counting all the mistakes from different categories, evaluating content, cohesion and coherence.
Don't get me started on Speaking and having to listen to one student a hundred times to mark it properly!
❓Why do I torture myself so much❓
It's simple.
I love suffering.
I want to be fair + I want to mitigate any risk of parents knocking on my door to demand an explanation as to why their child, the light of their life, got a 3, or, God forbid, a 2.
RANT OFF
❓Do you like conducting, checking and marking tests❓
P.S. I went to my school's garden to mark tests today. Was totally worth it.
Today I wanted to share something interesting, but, alas, I am literally buried under. Under tests.
Every year starts the same - the whole department conducts entry skill tests: Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking.
I think you can easily guess that evaluating some of those is more troublesome and headache-inducing than others.
RANT ON
What I hate about checking Writing and Speaking is not even the fact that I don't like correcting mistakes (I do like it, duh! I am a teacher!). What I loathe from the bottom of my black-black heart is making.
For me making means consulting the criteria (which our students are usually made aware of in advance), counting all the mistakes from different categories, evaluating content, cohesion and coherence.
Don't get me started on Speaking and having to listen to one student a hundred times to mark it properly!
❓Why do I torture myself so much❓
It's simple.
I love suffering.
I want to be fair + I want to mitigate any risk of parents knocking on my door to demand an explanation as to why their child, the light of their life, got a 3, or, God forbid, a 2.
RANT OFF
❓Do you like conducting, checking and marking tests❓
P.S. I went to my school's garden to mark tests today. Was totally worth it.
Continuing its crackdown against entities allegedly involved in a front-running scam using messaging app Telegram, Sebi on Thursday carried out search and seizure operations at the premises of eight entities in multiple locations across the country. Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. Since January 2022, the SC has received a total of 47 complaints and enquiries on illegal investment schemes promoted through Telegram. These fraudulent schemes offer non-existent investment opportunities, promising very attractive and risk-free returns within a short span of time. They commonly offer unrealistic returns of as high as 1,000% within 24 hours or even within a few hours.
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