348. Bad teacher

I am a bad teacher. But it's ok to be a bad teacher. In fact I think it is better to be a bad teacher than a good one. It shows you have a strong personality and some imagination; you are creative and resourceful, very independent and you don't really do stress because deep down you don't care. If you are a bad teacher you can tell me in the comments. Then I will write a handbook How to be a bad teacher and why it is good for you and I may add and for your country.

I realised I was one of the bad guys on Monday. I was marking. I was getting so far behind I was about to give this year's marks to next year's students. Imagine the confusion that would create.

So I set to work. The weather was still appallingly bad anyway. I logged in to the listening homework website I'd recently started using. A colleague had suggested it to me. He said it would improve my LMS. I had nodded knowledgeably but the minute he was out of sight I googled LMS. I had no idea what he was referring to. 

First thing I noticed once I'd logged in was the number of kids that had not done the homework. Next I saw that there were still some answers 'pending to grade' and I cursed myself (and the good teachers whose videos I used) for not having checked that there were open questions amongst the multiple choice. I would have to go through all these answers and check them. I sighed heavily and considered binning the whole thing.  

But then I noticed an icon on the right hand side. It read: consider all ungraded answers correct.

I blinked. Read it again. It still said consider all ungraded answers as correct.

That was a brilliant idea even though I knew it would definitely not help with my LSM? Yet, considering this was asynchronous learning it could pass for significant reinforcement of a positive pedagogy approach. Now my mind was befuddled enough to press the aforementioned button.

Oh joy!

Answer from student one to question appeared on the screen and I just had the time to see that the answer was horribly wrong that student two's answer was up - a good not I noted yet badly spelled - but student three's answer was already up and the machine kept going! Average 15 questions per video, count of 3 videos, 35 kids per class ... definitely time enough for a cup of coffee. I smiled to myself, pleased as punch.

It felt good. Definitely helping my LMS. Roll on ICT! Remote asynchronous testing via flipped classroom was definitely the way to go. Or how to go from bad teacher to impressively good! 

Please readers do not criticise me too much yet I will understand if you call me lazy in the comments.