You know that I really don't want to do something when I use exercise as tool for procrastination. Yes, it is one of my goals for the year and I have started my training for my 5k, however, usually I am trying to find something to put off exercise instead of the other way around. So now your curiosity must be peaked wondering exactly what it is that I am so adamantly avoiding, even as I sit here and type. If you know me any at all you may think I am avoiding housework, which would be a great guess but no. You may consider lesson plans, which would also be an appropriate guess but also incorrect. You may even go as far as guessing that I am avoiding cleaning the litter box, which something I also detest but that would be far from the truth today.
The task I am avoiding like the plague is none other than grades! I greatly dislike doing grades for elementary school music. There are many reasons. Just to name a few: Music in the Elementary school is not there to produce musicians but the encourage students to enjoy music, I would hate to discourage a child from pursuing all of music because they got a poor grade in the beginning. Most children at a young age have difficulty staying on pitch, yes it is my job to help build that but I hate being forced to grade a child on their ability especially in the lower grades. Many people in the united states have difficulty finding the beat, go to any concert or dance club and you will find them, so how can I give a child who can't march to a steady be a bad grade? Then there is also the behavior part of the grade for the kids in my class, and the ones that drive me crazy are the kids who hardly participate, constantly disrupt class, and yet can ace any written test I give them. Is it fair that they end up with a higher grade than the student who tries hard and yet just can't quite get the concepts? Then there is the fact that I don't give an actual letter grade, we do E, V, S, N, and U. There is no set range as to what actually constitutes one of these grades therefore everything becomes extremely subjective and I don't like it! Most of the time I feel like I just make grades up, and I guess that is why I really, really dislike this part of my job. Plus, it's not like their music grade counts for much of anything, it isn't even factored in to honor roll.
2 comments:
To bad you can't have two grades, one for participation and one for behavior instead of how well they do music. The ones who ready try but can't quite get it can still get a good grade. The ones who disrupt get their grade for that and if they are doing the music they get the grade for that. I remmenber we use to be graded on several differant things as E, S, or U that had more to do with following directions and behavior than the subject. The parents who cared could then help work on that area. Good Luck
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