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Teachers in my oldest's classes like to announce who got 98-100 on tests when passing out graded tests back to the students. When they give out the test scores lower than 98, they don't say anything. Then when they get to the failing graded tests, the kids are reminded, "Don't forget, you need to attend blah blah to retake this test." So they are letting other kids know who passed and who failed.
Do you agree with that?
Edited to add, I am purposely not posting which of the three camp my kid falls under. I am curious what people think first before telling my oldest's story when she asked the teacher about this.
Teachers in my oldest's classes like to announce who got 98-100 on tests when passing out graded tests back to the students. When they give out the test scores lower than 98, they don't say anything. Then when they get to the failing graded tests, the kids are reminded, "Don't forget, you need to attend blah blah to retake this test." So they are letting other kids know who passed and who failed.
Do you agree with that?
Edited to add, I am purposely not posting which of the three camp my kid falls under. I am curious what people think first before telling my oldest's story when she asked the teacher about this.
In grade school I think it's a very good idea to announce if someone had a perfect paper. It's an ego boost for the kid that achieved it and provides some incentive to the others to someday have their own perfect paper and be recognized.
In high school I believe there would be little to gain by doing so. In fact, depending on the school it could add to unnecessary resentment towards the good student and actually set up a bullying possibility.
As to announcing, even if it's subtle, who flunked a particular test whether it be grade school or high school is just plain wrong. They know who they are. Further embarrassment accomplishes nothing. One on one with the struggling (or not struggling cause they don't care) students is where you address their situation and then you pull no punches.
In 3rd grade (1968-69) we had to call out our own spelling test grades every Friday. It was fun, and it spurred a boys-vs-girls competition to see who got the most E's (for Excellent). Even though the boys could always count on me for an E, the girls always won!
The kids already know who is smart and who isn't, just like they know who is better at sports, etc.
By middle school kids are separated into Smart, Regular, and Dummy classes. Like I said earlier, they already know who is smart and who isn't.
They did away with that years ago. They are now all in the same class. Even in the "honors" classes. They said the honor kids might "inspire" the lesser performing kids to do better. I wish it was separated as you stated!
They did away with that years ago. They are now all in the same class. Even in the "honors" classes. They said the honor kids might "inspire" the lesser performing kids to do better. I wish it was separated as you stated!
I wish they were separated too. Most teachers do. Differentiation is generally given a kiss-and-promise, if even that as it simply isn't tenable in most classrooms. Used to be when kids were group together, the low end just got left in the dust and often dropped out. Now who suffers under the current setup is the best and brightest because we are teaching to the bottom.
But.... No, on announcing the exam's shinning stars and flunkers, especially in middle school. There are students who will quit getting those perfect scores because they are embarrassed by the attention or some will get harassed by jealous students. It is never a good idea to announce the flunkers - the ones that tried and still failed slightly will simply stop trying at all. They will make sure to tell everyone they don't study - better to be thought lazy than stupid, after all. Everyone already knows who is who anyway, but by the teacher placing a laser light on it you take the focus of all students from their own exams and place it on a select few others' exams.
Homework that can't be failed if they just try? Announce away.
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They did away with that years ago. They are now all in the same class. Even in the "honors" classes. They said the honor kids might "inspire" the lesser performing kids to do better. I wish it was separated as you stated!
And with years of being among each other everyone knows how the others perform.
It's really no secret among them who is smart, who is not, who doesn't care and who is the nerd.
I don't think it's necessary. By late elementary, the kids know who's smart and who's not, even if the teacher does not explicitly announce it.
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