Here's the deal- I'm terrible at Spanish. Last year, my teacher left the school, and I had "proctors" for the first half of the year. Finally, a perm teacher comes to replace my old one. As you can imagine, I learned nothing from the worksheets and book pages that the school (Not teacher, he just left without saying a word) left us. I knew some cognents.
The new teacher couldnt control the class, so we didnt learn much at all. By the end of the year, everyone started respecting him more, and I did learn a little bit- some conjugations, and some basic words. Then I basically forget most of it during the summer.
I come in this year, and my spanish teacher doesnt seem to like me. She cant teach well, and she just puts a ton of words on the board (sometimes skipping some lists because she thinks we know them already) for us to be tested on in a few days.
As you can imagine, my grade wasnt good. Until a few days ago it was a 70 (we have this thing called GradeConnect that tells us our grades, and average grade). So I wasn't cool with that, but at least I wasnt failing any classes that way. Yesterday, my teacher decided to switch the weights around. She puts in participation, and thought make homeworks count less, which is what the good part of my grade is from. She counted class participation as 20% of our quarter grade. What did she give me? She gave me a 10/100. Yes, that is 18 points off of my grade. So now, I have a 55.
Do you think there is anything I can do about this, or am I just bad beated? My moms going to FLIP and I'll have to quit my job, and stop spending time on the computer during the week.
Why are you taking Spanish if you don't do well? Are you even remotely interested in learning it? (I know it's the language of the future of the Americas, but still, if you hate it or just can't dig it, don't force it.)
IMO you have had a long string of bad teachers. Among other things, of course.
Is it too late to drop the class and get the partial bad grade eliminated? Jump into something that interests you more, like Japanese or French or whatnot? Any way you could talk to the teacher so you can figure out what is happening?
@ class participation vs. take-home work. This sounds like a classic battle between spoken fluency and written fluency. Most people are the other way around - they have better verbal skills than writing skills. Their classwork shines because they can speak well but they can't write or read worth a damn, so their home assignments are graded poorly. figure out where your weaknesses lie, and demonstrate you are putting forth some effort and then go and talk to your teachers, you must have some sort of leverage and a long string of missing assignments or poor marks in spoken language will undermine it.
I have to take spanish. Its the only language thats avalible, and I have to take 2 years (this is my second year). I hate the class, but I cant drop it. Keep in mind this is High School.
You can take another language through another school - far too many of my friends took Japanese via concurrent enrollment at a community college. All US schools are set up to allow that.
Another option is to speak with the school and show that you have to restart your Spanish classes back to the first class, giving them the same run-down you gave us about how the set-up failed you. I'm sure your parents can understand the turmoil issue.
Oh, and more often than not, you can replace language study with a fine art. I think that's determined by school district, possibly state, but usually you can take something like specific art or literature courses to replace foreign language.
Only other option I'm seeing is to take it up with the principal and see if you can get your old grade back. Depending on the principal, it can be done.
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My anecdotal evidence disagrees with yours! EXPLAIN THAT!
I come in this year, and my spanish teacher doesnt seem to like me. She cant teach well, and she just puts a ton of words on the board (sometimes skipping some lists because she thinks we know them already) for us to be tested on in a few days.
Lol. I can complete relate to that. I don't know what Spanish level you're in but my spanish 2 teacher could hardly speak English at all. She had a thick Spanish accent and since we poor students had only gone past our first year of Spanish, we had a hard time understanding her. Of course, her speaking in an awful Spanish accent is much better than her speaking Spanish. We would never understand that. For some reason, my school is horrible and teaching kids how to listen to and speak Spanish. Our writing skills are on par but everything else falls WAAAAAY below.
Yesterday, my teacher decided to switch the weights around. She puts in participation, and thought make homeworks count less, which is what the good part of my grade is from. She counted class participation as 20% of our quarter grade. What did she give me? She gave me a 10/100. Yes, that is 18 points off of my grade. So now, I have a 55.
Here is an easy way to get any teacher to like you. All you have to do is ask her questions all the time. It doesn't have to be in front of the class or anything. It doesn't even need to be something you really don't know. You could just beunsure about the problem assignment. Go up to her and ask her about it. After a while, they usually like students who talk to them. Keep this in mind that I've done this without volunteering to help. I'm a horrible person (at least for some supposed teacher's pet like me) and never ever volunteer to do anything. Yes, I meant that literally.
Did your current teacher give you a syllabus at the beginning of the year, detailing the way the weights of your grades would be distributed?
If so, you may be able to take the syallabus to your principal (or dean of students, or whoever would be in charge of that), and explain to them that your teacher changed the grading system midway through your semester, and you want to be graded based on that system, which you agreed to at the beginning of the year(if she had you sign the syllabus and return it to her), rather than the new one, which you had not agreed to.
If not, you should probably take sentimentGX4's advice, as well as possibly meeting the teacher during her after-class classroom or office hours, and discuss stuff from class that you don't understand. also, many schools offer tutors, and you may want to get one in order to help your grades in that class.
The new teacher couldnt control the class, so we didnt learn much at all. By the end of the year, everyone started respecting him more, and I did learn a little bit- some conjugations, and some basic words. Then I basically forget most of it during the summer.
I come in this year, and my spanish teacher doesnt seem to like me. She cant teach well, and she just puts a ton of words on the board (sometimes skipping some lists because she thinks we know them already) for us to be tested on in a few days.
As you can imagine, my grade wasnt good. Until a few days ago it was a 70 (we have this thing called GradeConnect that tells us our grades, and average grade). So I wasn't cool with that, but at least I wasnt failing any classes that way. Yesterday, my teacher decided to switch the weights around. She puts in participation, and thought make homeworks count less, which is what the good part of my grade is from. She counted class participation as 20% of our quarter grade. What did she give me? She gave me a 10/100. Yes, that is 18 points off of my grade. So now, I have a 55.
Do you think there is anything I can do about this, or am I just bad beated? My moms going to FLIP and I'll have to quit my job, and stop spending time on the computer during the week.
IMO you have had a long string of bad teachers. Among other things, of course.
Is it too late to drop the class and get the partial bad grade eliminated? Jump into something that interests you more, like Japanese or French or whatnot? Any way you could talk to the teacher so you can figure out what is happening?
@ class participation vs. take-home work. This sounds like a classic battle between spoken fluency and written fluency. Most people are the other way around - they have better verbal skills than writing skills. Their classwork shines because they can speak well but they can't write or read worth a damn, so their home assignments are graded poorly. figure out where your weaknesses lie, and demonstrate you are putting forth some effort and then go and talk to your teachers, you must have some sort of leverage and a long string of missing assignments or poor marks in spoken language will undermine it.
Good grief, I'm glad I don't go to your school!
Another option is to speak with the school and show that you have to restart your Spanish classes back to the first class, giving them the same run-down you gave us about how the set-up failed you. I'm sure your parents can understand the turmoil issue.
Oh, and more often than not, you can replace language study with a fine art. I think that's determined by school district, possibly state, but usually you can take something like specific art or literature courses to replace foreign language.
Only other option I'm seeing is to take it up with the principal and see if you can get your old grade back. Depending on the principal, it can be done.
Lol. I can complete relate to that. I don't know what Spanish level you're in but my spanish 2 teacher could hardly speak English at all. She had a thick Spanish accent and since we poor students had only gone past our first year of Spanish, we had a hard time understanding her. Of course, her speaking in an awful Spanish accent is much better than her speaking Spanish. We would never understand that. For some reason, my school is horrible and teaching kids how to listen to and speak Spanish. Our writing skills are on par but everything else falls WAAAAAY below.
Here is an easy way to get any teacher to like you. All you have to do is ask her questions all the time. It doesn't have to be in front of the class or anything. It doesn't even need to be something you really don't know. You could just beunsure about the problem assignment. Go up to her and ask her about it. After a while, they usually like students who talk to them. Keep this in mind that I've done this without volunteering to help. I'm a horrible person (at least for some supposed teacher's pet like me) and never ever volunteer to do anything. Yes, I meant that literally.
If so, you may be able to take the syallabus to your principal (or dean of students, or whoever would be in charge of that), and explain to them that your teacher changed the grading system midway through your semester, and you want to be graded based on that system, which you agreed to at the beginning of the year(if she had you sign the syllabus and return it to her), rather than the new one, which you had not agreed to.
If not, you should probably take sentimentGX4's advice, as well as possibly meeting the teacher during her after-class classroom or office hours, and discuss stuff from class that you don't understand. also, many schools offer tutors, and you may want to get one in order to help your grades in that class.