Y7 Eng: Teacher's remark in book...

You could easily ask the teacher who wrote it.

But it is much more fun to assume the teacher is pig shit thick

It wasn't the teacher, becaroo, the thread has moved on

Awful, but not surprising sadly.
Ds1s teacher or TAs couldnt spell and their grammar was atrocious.
sigh.

In exams you often give marks for spelling, puntuation and grammar. On the old Specification papers, in my subject it was 4 marks at the end. That meant it was very hard to get an A* if you could not write fluently and spell correctly. The new specification requires you to place students within a certain band according to their spelling. So the papers are marked to be within 5 bands according to the quality of an answer. So the lowest band being very poor the higest being outstanding. When placing a student within a band you consider their spelling, punctuation and grammar. This could again make the difference between a GCSE grade.

I have a feeling that was as clear as mud.

You can correct spelling without it affecting the mark. We don't give marks for classwork and homework in fact, just a comment.

"I'm a Science teacher and I correct spelling"

I was told while I was doing an OU humanities course that the humanities department doesn't mark down for spelling and finer points of grammar, so long as meaning is not obscured, while the science department does.

The idea behind it is that by teaching children to read and think critically about peers' work, it will develop and extend their critical facilities and he quality of their own work. Obviously in the remark mentioned by the op, the writer still has some way to go!...but (if it turns out to be a child in the end) s/he is only 11.

Never entirely sure about peer review.

In science, it's done by those qualified to evaluate it: other scientists.

The remark by the other student doesn't tell the OP's child enough about what was good or in need of improvement.

ampere, my ds is at your ds's school I believe.

I honestly would have thought that it was the written comment of a "peer". They are always reviewing each other's work. Every so often they have to submit a long piece of work which is marked by the teacher. They call it an "assessment" rather than an essay, or homework, and they get a mark, such as 7 high, or 7 low or some such, rather than A- or B+ .

I must say I am often shaking my head or growling about standards today, vis my "Should I complain about the syllabus" thread, after I discovered that ds's Gothic Literature lesson consisted of watching Scooby Doo.

If those really were the comments of a teacher , then that teacher should be shown the door.

Ahhhhh. Phew!

Ampere - you are right to be aghast. It's shite, dob them in. Really.

Sorry, that sounds sarcastic, but it's not OK at all. Do something, preferably to the teacher. If they do it again, the HOD. If that doesn't work, the HT.

I'm a HOD and it would piss me off royally if someone in my department did this.

I tend to correct it but not base my marks on it IYSWIM (I'm a MFL teacher so spelling in the language is always marked).

The Fallen Madonna - I am pleased to hear this. I know key vocab is often corrected but it's all the other words that bug me. I have an urge to get out my red pen if he brings work home.
I might suggest he starts, to get ahead of the game.

I'm a Science teacher and I correct spelling. Literacy is a big push in many schools now, and not before bloody time IMO.

My dh is a science teacher and it seems that the only place spelling is allowed to be picked up on is English, so what hope do we have? Children don't NEED to be able to spell to get GCSEs so they aren't corrected. They are the future teachers.
This teacher, if under 30 would probably have missed out on hard core spelling being taught and corrected in all areas.
I am always anxious when posting as even though I did an English degree, I have no real understanding of grammar. It just wasn't taught at my secondary school.
I support teachers, but could easily knee cap consultants, decision makers and education politicians.
This poor spelling teacher is a victim. Have sympathy, don't poke it with a stick.

That's shocking then.

Really. And I'm usually in the support-the-teacher camp. (Being one and everything!)

Really? I can't believe that the teachers on here would say stuff like that. I vaguely remember the thread. I agree that it would be a different story on TES, but I still think MN teachers are on the whole quite supportive.

I read and commented on that thread. She had some absolutely lovely ideas for presents that she and DC could make for teachers, and I was infuriated by some really nasty comments by teachers. (eg. she'll laugh at it/throw it away/who would want to ea something made by dirty children?).
I'm a secondary teacher too and somewhat bemused by the need for teacher gifts, but had I received one of her presents I would have been overjoyed.

I read the thread Feenie. Perhaps it was in Chat? She isn;t misrepresenting. It wasn't every teacher. Some were very lovely about her suggestions. But some weren't. And they were teachers. Or said they were at least - which all any of us can do.

Greensleeves, could you post a link to your Christmas present thread? I can't find it. Am convinced no MN teachers would have laughed and said it was mad. Some MN posters, maybe.