I whined today -- to anyone who would listen. I whined about giving so MANY screening tests! This year is no different than the past several years, mind you. It's just that when I have been screening all day, nonstop, for more than 5 days in a row, I get so bleary-eyed and overwhelmed, I wonder if I will be ABLE to ever reach the end? I use performance data from last spring to make my initial screening list -- but ALWAYS, each teacher has 3 or more to add once the kids have started school.
Remember that old commercial (was it in the 80's?) showing a frying pan sizzling a couple of sunny-side up eggs? "This is your brain on drugs!" Well, today I felt like those eggs in the frying pan: "this is MY brain on screening 35+ students over the past 7 school days!!"
OK -- enough whining about screening for reading support. Once this part gets over and I actually get to the part I love, which is helping at-risk learners improve their reading skills -- I'll be sunny-side-up again!
Hang in there! "Some days are diamonds, some days are stone" - my motto!
ReplyDeleteOh, do I agree with this one! Somehow we have lost sight of teaching and have become testers. I agree that testing should be done but the amount is overwhelming!
ReplyDeleteThis made me smile. I am glad you are going to be sunny side up soon.
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