Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Star Is Born Baby Shower

Evaluation

Like most teachers of second cycle of secondary school, I anticipate the arrival of the education reform in our grade level, starting September 2007. Some of my colleagues have attended training by the MELS to prepare for next year. Most of them return from their training with only one general comment: the evaluation.

My colleagues and I - I include myself here since I was teaching in a secondary re last year - have worked all year on assessment and more specifically on how to communicate these results to parents (newsletters). But MELS has fashioned a new method of communicating with parents.

What troubles me a bit is that this new method should be applied from the next ballot and it also occurs in the middle of the current step. This will require a fair amount of work for teachers, who already had a little difficulty in appropriating the current bulletin