I’m feeling kind of strange after giving my first quiz today. All the students thought that the quiz was fair, and some went quite well (i think, i haven’t marked it yet) but some didn’t go well.
I feel strange because I don’t want people to fail, but some students are definately not “competent”, therefore it doesn’t make sense to say that they are. The TAFE has a quality framework that it has to work within, and against which it is audited. But I feel bad giving a test that is going to judge someone as “not-yet-competent” - I guess it is something that I’ll get used to.
Yesterday I had my Teacher Advisory and Assessment supervision with Colin (my supervisor), as part of my permanancy at TAFE.
Overall it went well. A large practical component of the lesson was getting the students to ftp their files up onto our webserver, but during the lesson the server kept disabling the ftp account. It was a bit frustrating, but a good opportunity to see how I behaved under pressure (Colin said).
During the second part of the lesson, the students ftp’d files up to their own webspace. This was great! It’s so good to hear students going “aaahhhhhh! That’s really easy! I always thought it was something really difficult!”