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School Reports - how to write comments

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  • 06-01-2019 2:13pm
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    marbetu
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭


    Does anyone have guidelines they follow when writing comments about a student's overall performance (term or end-year reports)?
    I'm interesting in what you consider acceptable to write, things never to write and ways to write things ... with a goal of optmising the student's motivation, self esteem and learning - especially weaker students.
    Thanks in advance
    Marbe

    PS I'll write up and post the final guidelines when I have a few ideas here.
    I hope others will find it useful
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    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    marbetu wrote: »
    Does anyone have guidelines they follow when writing comments about a student's overall performance (term or end-year reports)?
    I'm interesting in what you consider acceptable to write, things never to write and ways to write things ... with a goal of optmising the student's motivation, self esteem and learning - especially weaker students.
    Thanks in advance
    Marbe

    PS I'll write up and post the final guidelines when I have a few ideas here.
    I hope others will find it useful

    Be careful about promising higher grades if a student does more study/better homework... unless you know that the student is such that anything they'd do will increase their grade.


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    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    Rate their progress. Tell them what they need to improve on. Many comments are such a waste of teachers' and parents' time.


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    evolving_doors
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    'A Pleasure to Teach'.... groan


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    TheValeyard
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    Lot of schools have auto comments to stop teachers giving their actual opinions and risk upsetting little Johnnys parents from finding out he is a little prick. Lot of e-portal/vsware schools have the drop down box and pick one of 26 options.

    All Eyes On Rafah



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    judeboy101
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    Never write anything you wouldn't like to hear read back to you In a defamation case in the high court.


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    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »
    Lot of schools have auto comments to stop teachers giving their actual opinions and risk upsetting little Johnnys parents from finding out he is a little prick. Lot of e-portal/vsware schools have the drop down box and pick one of 26 options.

    We tried that once.... students got a lot of the exact same comments from different teachers.


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    Exiled1
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭Exiled1


    A school can expand the comments sections on vs ware or portal. I have seen 100+ comments available for teachers to use in one school.


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    Exiled1
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    A school can expand the comments sections on vs ware or eportal. I have seen 100+ comments available for teachers to use in one school.


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    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,476 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Exiled1 wrote: »
    A school can expand the comments sections on vs ware or eportal. I have seen 100+ comments available for teachers to use in one school.

    You had 99 other choices. Did you really need to say it twice :D

    All Eyes On Rafah



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    doc_17
    Registered Users Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭doc_17


    I comment on the exam they just did. “Algebra and Trigonmetry require additional revision”.


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