Day 71- "My boy is wicked smart." Good Will Hunting

Today was the last writing day of the semester of my red/white classes. They are having a hard time with the process of writing. By this I mean they just want to turn in a final copy. I completed grading their pro/con essays, and while the content was what I was looking for, their grammar took a turn for the worse. Almost all of them admitted to not proofreading their paper (when we peer review, we don't make grammar changes due to research showing that peers tend to make the grammar errors worse). We have used Google Docs all semester to write and submit papers, and Docs does not perform some of the automatic grammar corrections that Microsoft Word performs, and in the amazingly proficient laziness, they do not check their papers for errors. I have informed them I will be the toughest I have been all semester on grammar, so they better make sure they revise their papers. Ok, I'm off my box now. Anyway, I made them make more of an effort to have a paper to revise and edit (meaning I made it worth more against them if they didn't have a draft). They seem to think they can just write and turn something in, and they can't. Heck, no one can. They at least produced some competent drafts, which I'm hoping will turn in to effective revision and well written final draft.

I had my post-eval for my observation from Friday today. My observer tried to get me to admit that modeling is essential at all times, but he couldn't get me to do it. I admitted that I model new skills, but at this point I have expectations for my classes and I want to see what they can do. I told him I didn't do my modeling he saw for all my classes due to the student in my other classes, and that is how it should be at this point in the semester. I'm not sure he agreed, but that doesn't surprise me since modeling everything we do, and yes, I mean EVERYTHING, is our new cluster obsession. I received a solid score, and with my wicked genius IQ I was able to quickly calculate that I need an average of a 1.4 on my next two evals to have my job next year. Since all my scores have been double that, I can virtually sleep in my next two evals and be "effective". Oh the points I want to prove with that theory.