Why do teachers give reports all at the same time?
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Because of the calendar. All classes are scheduled on the same start and end dates, and all the teachers need similar amounts of student product to measure your progress. Everything a teacher asks you to do, that is observable by them (report writing, answering questions in class, tests, etc.) is due to the teacher having to actually have visible proof that you are gaining the skills/knowledge being taught in the class to determine whether you are passing the class. The teacher has to be able to show that proof to school administrators, and more importantly, your parents, to show that you are gaining the course requirements. The teacher CANNOT give you a passing grade if the teacher does not have concrete proof of your increased ability. That proof must happen on a set schedule. Therefore, classes meeting on the same calendar dates for the same number of days, will have reports due pretty much at the same time. Live with it.
275934
Geez, it depends on the teacher. Some teachers heavily incorporate technology while others teach in the same way as instructors did fifty years ago.
676414
There is research showing everything.  Most teachers do show growth in their students in a school year.  Not all students are on grade level but they show some growth.
418652
Interesting question (I think it is a question.) Seems to me there is enough blame to go around...let's not stop with teachers. How about the students themselves? How about the parents? We have seen a huge dumbing down of students in the past 30 years...lowest common denominator effect, or "let no child be left behind." When students are pushed further into classes they cannot understand, when the quality of education is such that many students are left in the dark, when parents remain detached from their children and expect teachers to do it all, we have what we now have...a nation of illiterate kids graduating from high school Not all students are illiterate, but you don't have to look further than the questions/answers here to see that many kids cannot spell, cannot write a sentence, and cannot communicate clearly with written words. We have spawned a system where it is NOT cool to be educated, and certainly NOT cool to achieve anything in public schools. NERD is all but a curse word, isn't it? Yet it is the Nerds who inherit the jobs, the salaries, the world. Kids may think it is "cool" to be ignorant, but there comes a day when they must look around and wonder how they were left out ... of everything. IF I were to come home with a bad grade, IF I were to not do my homework, IF I were to mouth off to a teacher, I wouldn't sit for a week. So, to avoid the punishment, I did the work. Isn't it strange today that when a child misbehaves, the parents are up in the face of the teacher with accusations, threats, etc. Is it any wonder that teachers give up trying to educate a bunch of students who have no interest beyond text messaging? Teachers head into the career thinking they will make a difference. It doesn't take long for them to find out they are underpaid baby sitters of out-of-control thugs and brats. Unfortunatly, time has a way of evening things out. Sad to say, but I am glad I do not have to face the daily challenges of gangs, bullies, and "cool" people that students are surrounded by today.
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Even if the students don't read regularly or daily, It is compulsary for the teachers to read daily! They can't stand in front of the student without preparing for their class! students are smarter now-a-days! My sis is a teacher! She sits with her subject book and papers every evening regularly to update her knowlege!\n   But if the teacher has been teaching the same subject for a pretty long time period, She/ he would have mastered the book and so need not spend much time reading!\n   They will read the books of the subject which they are handling! They read encyclopedias! Ofcourse reading again and again make them master the book and subject and so they become professionally talented!
689531
Teachers don't get paid much, unless they are good enough and lucky enough to teach at a ritzy private academy. So not too many people want to put up with kids all day for chicken feed, so you have to put more and more kids into one classroom because there aren't enough teachers to go around, which makes the teaching job that much more difficult and that much more unpleasant until finally no one wants to be a teacher anymore and all our kids end up ignorant and poor and so they rob you for a living.
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Well, teachers are usually specialized in the area that they are teaching.  So while they might be smart at one thing, they might not know anything about another subject.  This is not to say that teacher's do know all about the subject matter at hand.  They learn new things while they teach also.  \n\nHere's a bad analogy:\nIt's like reading a book more than two times.  You always see more the second time around.  Therefore, this effect might take place while teaching from a book.\n\nNow, there are some teachers who don't know how to teach very well, so I guess you might call this an "act."  but, I would call it "practice."
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One aspect of my work is to help determine whether students are eligible for Special Ed, or for protections under state and federal laws to protect students with disabilities. When we make that decision, we are required by law to look at information from a variety of sources. Usually we do two or three different formal assessments that give us two or three completely different pictures of a student. These are usually standardized, so that you get a score in terms of how this student compares to other students his or her age. The team will review the school records, and get input from teachers, counselors, and family. Often, an objective outsider will observe the student in their usual classroom setting. Fifteen or twenty minutes of quiet observation can give you valuable information about a student.  \n\nAnother reason we need tests is to demonstrate that the students are actually learning what we allegedly teach them. Unfortunately, the yearly state tests we give them in the US each year are profoundly flawed.\n\nAlfie Kohn writes, "Don’t let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures.  The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered." By that he means that standardized test scores are profoundly affected by the students' social standing and economic condition (or socio-economic status).\n\nBut when it comes to taking away funds from a school, the same requirement of gathering information from a variety of sources does not seem to apply. It seems this is often done because of the scores on a single type of yearly test, one that covers a small fraction of what students should be learning in school, and one which has no direct consequences for the students who take it.  They don't care, and they like to draw pictures with the dots in the bubbles. On the other hand, there are big-time consequences for school staff.\n\nIn one major metropolitan area in the US, a favorite trick of the politicians is to cut the budgets of struggling schools and watch the test scores go down. Then they fire the principal and all the teachers (except the ones with "outstanding" ratings, which principals rarely give), replace the staff with new teachers, give them a highly-scripted curriculum (Teacher: Take out your pencils and open your workbooks to page 41. We are going to complete these sentences...), pour more money into the school, declare the school "Transformed", and take credit when test scores go up again. \n\nTeacher qualifying exams: They make an awful lot of money for the companies that give them, which sometimes charge more than $100 for a test that only takes an hour or two. Often a state will require six or seven of these for a teaching license. They do help protect the schools and the teachers unions from allegations that the teachers can't read or write. But you cannot test what separates a good teacher from a terrible one with a #2 pencil and a bunch of bubbles to fill in. And that's just common sense.
81251
I'm a teacher, and I can be completely stern and completely fun and laid back with the same class. I find the combination to be effective. It lets students know that class is a fun place to be, but there are times to be free, fun, and creative, and there are times to be silent and controlled. In general, teachers MUST be stern, but a "stern teacher" seems to indicate one that doesn't make an effort to relate to their students or to make education enjoyable for them, and that's not effective at all.
1122161
The teacher sometimes gives a class/teacher evaluation to her students to fill out.  This needs to be administered by someone other than the teacher, with the teacher out of the room, and the results need to be anonymous.
1091040
Yeah... teachers try to "cheat" kids out of failure by "tricking" them into knowledge.  :o)
515330
It's disgustingly trendy.  My husband is a high school English teacher, and I honestly think he was the first teacher to even question the authenticity of students' papers.  His principal's response about the epidemic?  "What are YOU going to do to make sure they pass?"  I was under the impression that educators' jobs are to teach students how to think for themselves, not allow them to be herded through the system.  The fact that it's run rampant in universities shows just how sorry this society's system is now.  :(
812028
Probably not.  Most schools send out letters all at once. Good luck!
92521
I cannot answer this definitively, but I believe teachers report this sort of thing to the state Social Services department.  There may be a web site or at least phone numbers online you can check into.
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Teachers and principals
828580
it is to encourage independent learning, why should they give you all the information, you can learn more by finding these things out for yourself. acquiring more than just listening and copying down what he tells you. why should students be handed all the information on a plate? when you have a job, depending on what it is, they will not give you all the information and you will have to source it for yourself.\n\nhe is teaching you skills that will equip you for life.  Even thought it is a pain in the a$$ now.
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They want teachers to agree with them that "my child would NEVER behave like that!!"\nThey want teachers to give their children something for nothing...i.e. grades.\nThey want teachers to suddenly come up with an extra-credit assignment for their child (so the little darling can pass) when there are two weeks left in the final semester and their child's average is sitting at 47%.\nThey want teachers to put their own life on hold while they spend their entire weekend grading extra-credit assignments so their wonderfully well-behaved, academically groomed child WILL pass, dammit!\nAnd so on, and so on, and so on......