We had the first MAP test this morning and it went pretty smoothly.
Minus the break in the middle of it for the tornado drill. That was
pretty inconvenient. The test is a little different this year and it
seems like there is a lot more reading on the reading test. Go
figure. A lot of the kids were taking the whole time, more than last
year, and I think they were confused by the long reading passages
which had multiple questions. But they only showed one question at a
time and it seemed like some of the kids didn't realize it was the
same passage and they were reading it more than once. That would
definitely add some extra time to the test.
I didn't have lunch duty today because of testing. I could have gone
after the first test but I would have had to leave early to set up
for the second test and then wouldn't have been able to actually eat
lunch until after two o'clock. So instead I opted to eat lunch after
the first test. I still could have made it to a little bit of lunch
duty before setting up for the next test but it would have been kind
of pointless. And then the teacher for the second test forgot about
the test so they showed up fifteen minutes late. That would have
given me enough time to help out in the lunchroom but I was unable to
foresee the future.
The second test also went well, and it wasn't interrupted by a
tornado drill. The teacher forgot to add one of her kid's to the
seating chart so she logged him in and a little while later a para
came in and noticed that he was taking the Reading test, not the Math
test. So we got that switched and the teacher thanked the para
because she said she probably would have ripped the kid a new one for
taking the wrong test and not saying anything. And she would have.
It was funny when the teacher went to fix it because the kid said he
thought something was wrong because there seemed to be a lot of
vocabulary. And no math.
The only afternoon class I had canceled because the student teacher
was being observed while she taught a lesson. So I spent the rest of
my afternoon inputting the test scores I had into my spreadsheet.
And then I messed around a lot with the format of my spreadsheet.
I'm still figuring out Excel 2010 and I'm trying to make the
spreadsheet look a little better. At the moment I am annoyed that I
am setting my spreadsheet to fit the page when I print, with tiny
margins, but it isn't filling the entire page. I might have to give
up on that.
Tonight I watched some YouTube videos and then started to play The
Walking Dead video game. I am
really liking it so far. The visual style is cool and the voice
acting is not terrible. Most of it anyway. My only problem with the
game is that it gives me too many choices. I don't know how much
these choices affect the ending, or how many different outcomes there
really are, but I already feel like I'm missing out and I haven't
gotten to a point where my choices have had a major impact. It would
be cool if after beating the game you could go back and see what
would have happened if you made different choices, without having to
play through the whole game again. Because I know that won't happen.
Tomorrow I have more testing to look
forward to. And some sort of safety drill that will be interfering
with at least one of those tests. Gotta love MAP testing combined
with safety week. And Picture Day on Wednesday. I feel like the
people in charge of scheduling things forgot we have an entire school
year to spread all this crap out. We didn't need to do it all in the
same week. But life goes on. As long as I get to bed by ten
o'clock. So I'm going to go do that.
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