Give students an assessment test the first week of the
school year. Grade it and file it away, don’t record the score. At the end of
the school year, give them the same exam and grade it. Then hand them the copy
of the exam they took the first week of school. Let them see how much they
learned.
Then stand back and prepare for tears. Some of them
will gush and look you straight in the face and choke out the words, “Thank
you.” It’s hard to know the impact teaching makes. It’s hard when teaching
English or math. You never really see how much they have learned and improved
in one year.
It’s easier in a foreign language class. I have taught
both English and foreign languages, German and French. But the best feeling I
ever had teaching is when a student in an eighth grade English class looked at
her two exams and realized how much she had learned. She became emotional and
showed her gratitude on her face. She knew we had done that together. I helped her on her path to college and she was grateful.
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