Projects

I gave both my 7th and 8th grade projects to complete the last few weeks. The 8th grade turned theirs in and I was happy with them. However, when it came time to collect the projects from my 7th grade, I was very disappointed in the quality of the projects and the number of projects that were actually completed. Of the two classes, one had everyone turn their projects in, while the other class, only about half of the students turned the projects in to me.

I reminded the students the whole week before the projects were due that they must complete these projects. I told them this everyday of the week and they seemed to not even care about the projects. These projects counted as test grades, so a lot of these students received zero's on these projects and thus their grades are suffering.

Which is another thing that is upsetting to me. I have told these students that this quarter is shorter than the others and they should not get behind early thinking they have time to catch up because they do not. Well, grades this quarter are much lower than they were last quarter. I believe some of this is because we are covering new material and not reviewing old material as we did in the first 2 chapters or so. But it is frustrating because I take that personal and view it as a reflection of my teaching ability.

Aaron