Spondylitis Association of America Forums General Discussion Off-Topic Forum I hate marking!

Term broke up last Friday... now the marking has started! 160+ courseworks to mark. I have the first year's work at home and have done 40 out of 110 so far. Aaargh. Some days you're quick... some days you're slow. Today was slow. I have done 10. Most of the ones today were terrible, luckily the last one I marked was the best so far, so a slight glimmer of hope! The worse they are, the more feedback you have to give...

I'm taking 25 up North with me for Christmas. :rolleyes:

Just venting! Its pain, but not as we know it... LOL

I'm away for a few days from tomorrow, so have a great Christmas everyone. See you soon!

Oh Charlie, have a merry CHRISTmas...and may the New Year bring up major changes in the treatment of this stoopid disease, and may those changes be good!!! Merry Merry!

Charlie,

If you don't mark our papers, how will we learn anything? Seriously, good teachers are hard to come by. Thanks for the dedication and hard work.

Aw! I'm sure I'd give you a first class grade. A++

Merry Merry to you too, as MsJay said! I like that!

Charlie

Don't forget to save some time for your music. I'm looking forward to your next album in 2006 not 2007. Too long to wait.

Cya and have a great Christmas

Av guy

Have a safe and happy trip Charlie.

Enjoy your family and friends. Lay around your Mom's house and eat cookies and chocolates.

Merry Christmas Charlie!

Please take care of yourself and have a wonderful time. BTW, my very first job, when I was about 14, was helping a teacher grade papers. She taught 3rd grade, so I guess she assumed I could figure out the work!

Please tell me you will do a Christmas album. I LOVE Christmas music, and just can't buy enough!

Michelle

Was I the only one that saw the subject and thought it applied to a dog lifting it's leg? Sometimes marking on paper is a good thing instead of doing it on the corner of a wall or the furniture. Just my opinion though!

Interrestingly, I had no conclusion on what you were talking about...or what subject you could possible be refering to...thought it was some secret society game or...Oh, you're a teacher.

VERY SORRY FOR THE SLOPPY WRITING...rude of me. I usually recieved a C+ because of spelling, saved by my subject matter witch was more important than the class...nuclear dissarmament.

Just above average...that's good enough.
A+ for Charlie, thanks for replying to the email.

Erik

Like trying to decipher what Cricket is all about. BBC world service is on, it's my other hobby in the middle of the night...and when they talk about cricket i have no idea how to play.

Know i'd like your album though, cause of the wah and your pain. I play mostly pentatonic minor with a delay pedal. Led Zeppeling was the primary influence on my whole life.

Buenas noches, Beunas dias, Erik

Hey Erik

Cricket! I don't know who invented it or why, and I could never claim to understand it. I prefer soccer. 90 minutes is long enough. Roll on the summer and the World Cup.

Charlie,

Cheers to a healthy new year. i don't drink but gethighon sobriety while around revelers.

it would be cool if you were playing, either acoustic or with a band...

i'm walking to the pub and will dance if the the rythem does it for me. Sometimes hitting the floor is therapuetic, sometimes i have it in me sometimes i don't.

Hope you're well...Erik

71 done. Ugg. I'm so tired. Hitting the floor... well I'm sure I could, but only in the literal sense. :p As in, falling flat on it in exhaustion. Off to bed, with nice nightcap of pain meds since I have been sitting most of the day.

good job Charlie...
What's the subject?

integration of internet technology and pain relief...

be well, erik

Charlie,
I don't know why I dinna visit this board sooner! I guess I am ready now. I could guess a teacher's job is harder these days because the students do not learn as well as once they did.

What do you teach and whom? What a grand thing to help the education of a mind, to better their soul and lead them on to higher functioning!

As a teacher, my best work is teaching people to ride or train horses. But that would be my passion. Next would be teaching women how to take care of themselves in pregnancy and after, to love their babies.

Keep going, you will be done soon!
Dayna

Sounds like a course I'd have good inherent knowledge of. ha ha ha

Dayna et al

I teach Multimedia (basically computing with an arts bias) at a London university. 110+ first years and about 50 second years. Teaching is a good mixture of sitting and standing. I'm not in an office for a good amount of my job. Marking is about 3 times a year, and with high student numbers it is always a mammoth task! Teaching starts again next week, I feel like I barely had a holiday! Oh well. Coupled with raging PMS, I'm in a really good mood!!! :rolleyes: Pity the chocolate advent calendar is all finished.

Hey, I forgot to say... teaching riding must be fun! Do you teach that just one pupil at a time? I like that sort of teaching best. You get a chance to get to know the student. I supervise 10 project students (writing their dissertations) and the appointments are all one-to-one.

Midwifery, I'm sure there's no more worthy job. Any supporting role around motherhood benefits society as a whole. I have seen what post-natal depression can do, so I know its not always rosy in the garden after a birth.

I'd like to have enough kids to do a register each morning, lol. Maybe one day. I think you call registers "roll call" over there, like in Hill Street Blues?

I have taught riding singley and in groups for 4H, Pony Club, Handicap riding, and for adult friends... at a riding school and elsewhere. It is now a side line that has to fit into my life when it can.

I have moved onto administrative nursing so do not get to teach many women about birth and babies anymore... though I will get my consultant
certification in lactation this coming July. I have a special heart for the group of women to teach who are hispanic women and cannot speak english. I was never taught teaching formally but I supposed when you know a subject well enough, you eventually end up teaching it. I also have taught basic life support (CPR) for years and years. I liked infant CPR the best.

Finished the 80 first year courseworks (the teaching assistant is getting 30). Now onto the seond years. :rolleyes: I have to go into work to mark those. Neck is complaining mightily, youch. I wonder if I'll manage to get all this done by the weekend and have a break!

moan moan moan

Dayne, I once did the St John's Ambulance life-saving course. Could do with a refresher, I can't remember half of it now. Although I can recall the Heimlich manoeuvre (?sp). :p Good luck with your teaching, I am qualified, but I think good teachers are possibly born not made. It matters more that your heart is in it, and you love your subject (and can convey that). You're a good communicator, at least in writing, and that's half the battle.

Like your new signature by the way!

Teaching is a noble profession.

The biggest problem here in the states is that teachers, especially at the grade school, middle and HS levels, are now having to "dumb down" their lessons.

For whatever reason, the "powers that be" in the educational system think that instead of having high expectations of what the students can and should achieve, the teachers are made to lower their class standards so all students can achieve without much effort. Mediocrity is acceptable.

Funny, how in just 36 years since I was in school, things have changed so drastically and dramatically. It's no wonder we have a nation of young people who cannot read, write or use proper English when speaking. Yes, sometimes I do misspell things, but that's carelessness. I hear people every day misuse words in sentences, like the word "whenever". They insert whenever instead of using when. Example: "Whenever I went to school today, I wore jeans." Our knowledge of geography is deplorable! And just watch the promo's for the TV show, "Beauty and the Geeks". The girls are bubbleheads! One question was, "where does roast beef come from?" Answers; Arbees, one said beef, but then said pigs?, horses?...ACK!!!

It's a sad state of affairs. Whatever happened to learning the basics? We are a nation of idiots!

OK, now climbing off my soapbox...whoever let me up here in the first place?

Elf,

If you're on a soap box, I'll join you. I think education in this country is in a sad state. That's not to say that ALL school districts are crumbling, but it's enough to be alarming.

My best friend teaches at a Cleveland High School, on the East Side (for those who don't know, that's the "bad" part of town.) My older brother has taught honors biology at a local suburban high school for over 30 years. The stories I hear truly make my heart sad.

Yes, there are good students and teachers, but I'm afraid the bad or complacent/indifferent ones outnumber them now. Even in my daughter's grade school I see things that would be unthinkable just a decade ago, or less.

OK, getting off my soap box now, too. I think teaching is a truly noble profession and not nearly enough good ones are out there. Charlie, you have my deepest admiration. Hope the rest of the marking goes quickly for you.

Crystal