[Informatics] Looking for a VCE trial exam marker

[Fikret Guclu]

I totally agree, why would you let someone else mark your students’ trial essays before their CAT. How will you know how to gear your approach to individual learning and be able to give feedback?

 

Fikret Guclu

Hume Central S.C. Blair St. Campus

 

From: informatics <informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au> On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: 10 May 2019 14:26
To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List <informatics at edulists.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Informatics] Looking for a VCE trial exam marker

 

I've seen requests for exam marking assistance before. I've even taken such a job in the past. 

 

But...

 

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I found that marking my kids' practice exams was one of the most significant diagnostic tools available to me to understand my kids' needs and strengths to improve their learning. 

 

It's sort of like the difference between breastfeeding and employing a wet nurse. 

Sometimes, for good reasons, you have no choice but to do it, but it's such a valuable experience to do it yourself. 

Even if it hurts.

 

After marking a batch of practice exams from another teacher's class, I had a really good idea of which kids were on the right track and why, and who weren't and why. The class clown and the budding genius became very clear in just one exam.  

I got to know each one of them so well in just 100 marks.

 

I wouldn't want to have outsourced that sort of potential insight into the kids I was teaching.

I'm not criticising the outsourcing of exam marking, but...

 

😕

Mark

 

On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 12:16, Benjamin Ratcliffe <Benjamin.Ratcliffe at yvg.vic.edu.au <mailto:Benjamin.Ratcliffe at yvg.vic.edu.au> > wrote:

Hi all,

 

If anyone would be interesting in being paid to mark 20x trial VCE exams in the first week of Term 4, please message me off list at: Benjamin.ratcliffe at yvg.vic.edu.au <mailto:Benjamin.ratcliffe at yvg.vic.edu.au>  

 

Exams can be Express Post to your address and you would also be compensated for the cost of express posting them back to the school

 

Best wishes,

 

Ben

 

Benjamin Ratcliffe

Year 11 Tutor | Co-House Coordinator - Plummer | Teacher - Media and Digital Technologies

 

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