During the holiday season, teachers receive gifts from students, and the search engine can help you keep track of what you received from which student.
In the student lesson notes section, I write xmas-gift, followed by the gift received in the private notes section. If I just type xmas, a search will pull out any lesson notes with the word xmas in it. As some of my students learn Christmas music during this time of year, I have the word xmas in many lesson notes.
After the holidays are over, you can go to the Lesson History under the Lesson tab, and search for xmas-gifts. This search will give you a list of all the students that gave you a gift during the holidays. Quite helpful.
I also use this technique to enter particular grades, whether weekly, monthly or quarterly. I precede the grade with an astrick *. An example of a grade is *10. A search for * will pull up the student grades.
There are many uses for the search engine that will enable MTH to work even harder for you. On the bright side, you don’t have to give MTH a raise for taking on more responsibility and work.
What creative ways do you use for the search engine?
by T. Scarborough — Thu Dec 20, 2007 @ 11:27 pm
I grade on performance. I will take off for a student who did not bring their music. A 3.0 is good, and my expectation. 2.0 is for a performance of lesson material that is less than my expectation, and 1.0 is for students that did not practice and need to repeat the assignment.
by Ronnie Currey — Fri Dec 21, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
by Ronald Still — Fri Jan 4, 2008 @ 11:43 am