Day 13

This was our teacher work day which is very different from ours in the US. Our only purpose for the work day was to do report cards and put candy in the Easter eggs. I graded a few papers that day and then packed Easter eggs full of candy for our Easter egg hunt on Tuesday. The rest of the week we are off from school for Easter holiday and the students’ spring break. However for this week we are suppose to do a service project. Part of our service project was to create a spreadsheet to help our teachers out with recording their grades. Today at the work day we tried to work on it. However, many of the teachers like the way they are doing grades now which is they record grades in their grade book and then they average them and put them on the report cards. However, the office has to photocopy the grade book and make copies of the exams that they give. Dr. Renee the principal wanted to change if over to the computer so it is easier to compare and contrast scores and students grades. When trying to figure out how to set this up it became very complicated so many of the teachers did not want to do it. So now this issue became part of our service project. We are suppose to figure out a simple way that meets the principal and the teachers needs. Once we complete it we will share it with our teachers after the break.