Teacher making errors

[Darkdarkdeeds]

I totally get that teaching is a challenging and often undervalued profession, but am I being unreasonable to expect homework to be marked correctly?

Dd is 8 and I have spotted errors in the marking before, but I just glanced at her recent homework and it is absolutely littered with glaring errors. I took a pic of the worst bit as an example. Not too outing hopefully as it's a generic twinkl worksheet.

DH and I try not to overly guide DD when she is completing the homework because otherwise it's not really her work and won't demonstrate where she needs more practice, but I think we might need to change our approach.

I can appreciate the odd error slipping through when someone's having a bad day, but am I alone in finding this poor? I'm not even sure how to bring this up or what to say, but I think i'll have to.

Are you sure that the teacher is actually marking these and it's not peer marking?

Hi, im a teacher. Definitely query this! The children could be marking each others work and someone wasn't paying attention.
Either way it's poor, because your daughter obviously has a misconception about the cian/ tion ending there and it has been reinforced rather than picked up and corrected. Definitely not unreasonable to raise that.

Those look like “teacher” ticks to me rather than “Year 3 child” ticks.

Teacher is ticking and not looking. When I was teaching I’d call it a “tick and flick” when going through the motions in books and just putting ticks on every page to show it had been looked at, but ticking so obviously wrong individual answers is really not good.

Peer or self marked I reckon.

I bought erasable pens for my marking after countless errors made when trying to mark 180 books after an exhausting day of teaching!

Pretty sure it's not peer marked as there was a stamp on it saying 'excellent work' 🤔and it matches the previous marking.

I suspect part of the issue is that the homework is handed in on Friday and they get it back the same day, I guess to avoid the teacher having to take any marking home. I'm not opposed to that in principle, as long as these kind of obvious mistakes aren't being made.

I'm interested to know, those of you who are or were teachers, do you think we are doing the wrong thing not helping her more? I had thought that it would show the teacher her actual level of understanding in different areas but if she's paying this little attention that's not really going to be of benefit.

Hi, I'm an ex KS2 Leader :) If it has been marked by the teacher, which it looks like it has, it is very poor and I would mention to the teacher that you are a bit worried about some things being marked incorrectly.

I will say, however, that teachers are more likely to use children's work completed in school to make judgements of where children are at rather than from homework as you never know how much support parents give at home and not every child does homework.

That does not mean I am against parents helping - quite the opposite in fact! I actually think it is great for parents to sit and help their child with their homework and you could always write a note on the work to say you've assisted your daughter. I don't think just giving the answer is helpful but guiding them and offering advice and support is great. You can always talk about the correct answers after your child has completed the work independently if that is more preferable.

Teachers only have so much time in a day to support children and they don't necessarily have the time to work with every child as much as they'd like. I, for one, would have loved more parents to help their children with homework if they could!

Thank you so much for taking the time to offer your insight MyCloud, that's really helpful.

DD usually needs a fair amount of prompting to stay on track because she finds it hard to stay focused. I would tend to gently prompt her to look again if I noticed an error but perhaps a bit more support at home wouldn't go amiss. Either way I definitely dropped the ball this time letting those clangers go unquestioned.

Ex KS 2 too. It does look teacher marked, so it’s a bit pants, but show me a teacher who claims never to have made an error &
I’d show you a pillock. It’s a basic mistake, but everyone makes them. A simple oops, there’s a mistake but it’s no biggie conversation would be OK, not a full on Spanish Inquisition, burn them at the stake confrontation.

We’re all human!

I agree, parents being supportive & positively assisting homework is a fabulous thing! Parents who do their child’s homework, now that would be a burning at the stake offence lol!

Not a teacher, just a parent.
I think this is no big deal, especially you know that the teacher marked in a rush. It's a simple mistake.
What I think us parents can do, especially this kind of homework is, to check it for them, and if the child made a mistake, direct them to look it up themselves. Then it's not just helping with correct answer, but making sure the child is learning the correct spelling.

Yes centrifugal I wasn't planning on bringing the pitchfork 😁I think it seemed worse because the two mistakes from the photo I posted immediately jumped out to my eye as wrong on a very quick scan, but I imagine after the 30th book it does all start to blur.

The teacher has marked the selection of words as correct instead of correcting the spelling. It's a badly phrased question, requiring a two stage answer but not providing an indication of whether the selection is right.

I’m afraid I don’t agree with PP - it says select and write them out correctly - they have ticked the writing out. I personally think it doesn’t take long to look at a work and see if it’s correct. As it seems to be part of many errors, I wouldn’t be happy! A few maybe but ticking blatantly incorrect words….