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Dec. 21st, 2013 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212Talk about tough questions. Ten minutes into my second class with the lay institute and people are asking me to give my exigesis and explanation of Jesus’s “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life” speech.
To be fair, I’d just asked them to define truth. I guess it makes sense that they’d then want me to explain what definition of truth Jesus had in mind.
On the other side of the tough questions: this week is third quarter exams in the high school. I’m grading the 8th grade class, mostly on the kings of Israel. We spent weeks on this topic. First they were supposed to research and prepare presentations on the kings, and when most of the groups failed epically at the job, I spent another nearly three weeks teaching the kings again. The average grade I’m recording on this test is probably in the 40s or below. The highest grade is currently 86. Still twitching over some of the answers. Samuel and Solomon are two different people, guys. Ones that never met because Samuel was dead before David ever actually became the official king of Israel, much less had Solomon.
On the bright side, almost everyone got the story of Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom right. Possibly because they were so grossed out by Amnon's actions.
With test scores like this, I start wondering about my test itself. But none of the questions are over material not covered, I can look at the questions and see where the answers are in the notes. There’s no one question that everyone got wrong. And a number of people are missing twenty plus points on the essay questions because they refused to answer the full question for each.
Oh, and the other news for the week, one of the students wrote an article about me in the school newspaper, and I stuck it up on my blog:
http://serviceandstories.blogspot.com/2013/12/red-color-of-love.html
To be fair, I’d just asked them to define truth. I guess it makes sense that they’d then want me to explain what definition of truth Jesus had in mind.
On the other side of the tough questions: this week is third quarter exams in the high school. I’m grading the 8th grade class, mostly on the kings of Israel. We spent weeks on this topic. First they were supposed to research and prepare presentations on the kings, and when most of the groups failed epically at the job, I spent another nearly three weeks teaching the kings again. The average grade I’m recording on this test is probably in the 40s or below. The highest grade is currently 86. Still twitching over some of the answers. Samuel and Solomon are two different people, guys. Ones that never met because Samuel was dead before David ever actually became the official king of Israel, much less had Solomon.
On the bright side, almost everyone got the story of Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom right. Possibly because they were so grossed out by Amnon's actions.
With test scores like this, I start wondering about my test itself. But none of the questions are over material not covered, I can look at the questions and see where the answers are in the notes. There’s no one question that everyone got wrong. And a number of people are missing twenty plus points on the essay questions because they refused to answer the full question for each.
Oh, and the other news for the week, one of the students wrote an article about me in the school newspaper, and I stuck it up on my blog:
http://serviceandstories.blogspot.com/2013/12/red-color-of-love.html