Ninth grade

About six years ago, I moved to the United States together with my family. After having been here for one week, I started my ninth grade. I learned English in Vietnam for a couple years before moving. However, my skills weren’t good enough for me to understand and talk to my teachers and peers. I struggled for a long time to fit in. Everything to me was unfamiliar. Beside having a difficult time to understand the new language, I was also having a hard time to getting used to other aspects of the…

People love getting paid for everything: tutoring, housework, grades? Several schools across the United States are beginning to pay students for good grades. Students are taught from this that grades are very important to their lives. Test scores also rise up and students become more confident in themselves. This is a great idea for students and teachers to be awarded and motivated for their hard work. A nonprofit organization called Virginia Advanced Studies Strategies supported this…

first grade. My first-grade teacher was Ms. Young. Every Friday, all the teachers would come together to have story time. They would take turns reading the children a book. One day a teacher would read a book one Friday; the other teacher would read the next Friday and so on. I would…

extent for this kind of behavior because it in fact makes it hard on both students and instructors. However, students grades should be based on how they retain the information, not on their behavior. First off, students who partake in this kind of…

doing. Grades decide whether or not a student will pass a class and will graduate or fail the class resulting in staying another semester. With this hovering over students heads they want to know their grades as soon as possible. Getting the class their grades before technology was a very difficult task for teachers to accomplish. The teacher would have to grade the work, put it down on a piece of paper, and then complete it by doing some type of math to get the students weighted grade in the…

Grades are efficient and reliable to demonstrate strengths and weaknesses of students on their work. All teachers who are professional in teaching have reliable grading criteria based on research and experience. They give students accurate scores following the grading criteria. Here is the situation that most of students have experienced. There is a student who regularly participates in class and he spend much time for reading and studying the textbook. On the due date of English assignment #1,…

instructors, students, and teachers. In the United States we use grading to track the academic progression of students. Grades are important to education and serve many purposes. Grades motivate students, allow us to compare student performance across different institutions or organizations, and motivate students to succeed. Bernard Bull, a writer for Etale, claims that letter grades are effective in the short-term, but in the long term he argues that they can have negative effects such as;…

that make us different from one another. Our idea of determination and dedication, or college persistence also varies from one major to the next. Some students may classify this as attending classes and being prepared for tests and having a high grade point average, or GPA. But then there are those students who classify persistence as making it through one class with a C in core classes and D in their general education courses. For a non-traditional student just going back to classes with a…

receive is extra time, subsequently, allowing the student to receive a grade for an assignment that he or she did not complete on the accurate grade level would be a violation of the student’s IEP. The following is a course of action that I propose to rectify the situation that has been created. First and foremost, by February 10th “what has been done has been done.” As the principal, it not only will be hard to go back and change grades that have been recorded but also will be dishonest and…

When coming through the public school system, we often find that students are trying to find ways around actually doing the work, and as teachers (or future teachers in my case) we want to know what drives these students to the point where they can justify academic dishonestly. There are common associations with academic dishonesty students who work part time jobs, students who are only focused on college acceptance, and (at higher levels of education) students who are just simply not prepared.…