jiminymacca
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Ok, first let me get this clear that it's not my teacher, but in the short time I've dealt with her, she has been nothing but incredibly rude to me.
Here's the story-
Last wednesday was MAD (Music, Art, Drama) Night at our school and the year 12s did their performances that are being assessed (though they weren't assessed ON the night, but on a later date). There were 3 performances by the groups. The assessment is being double marked by the only drama teacher (see title) and an art (wah??) teacher (see title again), for all intensive purposes they'll be known as Ms Bi..Drama and Ms Art. So the next lesson after the first performances (friday), Ms Drama was talking to the groups, or rather, talking to one group and telling them about stuff to improve, she also said Ms Art needed to tell them things. Oh, and btw, theres a link to the video here -> http://community.boredofstudies.org...think-performance-video-link.html#post4442631. Ms Art told them that they needed to make it more exciting, for them to move around more in parts (they somewhat agree), how things were out of time (music, though that's entirely the fault of the sound crew), with small little things. She had nothing to say about any of the other groups. So that was friday. One person from that particular group was away, ill with something involving puss and his eyes I don't really want to get into it, but in short, he could do barely anything. The possibility of meeting up on either saturday or sunday was destroyed (not blaming the guy, he had puss coming out of his eye, not his fault). The hope was that he would be there on monday so they could quickly go over it for the actual assessment on tuesday. Monday came along and the guy was still away for that lesson, so they could make no changes without the chance of the guy forgetting a change he had only just learnt and the performance being ruined, so they did it as they did (better in fact) at MAD Night. The majority of the group members were pleased with their performances for the assessment, until the marks came around today. Lets say, group 1, who had nothing said to them about their performance at mad night by either teacher, had Ms Drama going off her nut, saying that their ending was quote 'bullshit', that it was 'crap and predictable', forcing one girl into tears about it, The group got marks of less than 18/30 for that performance, which could have been significantly improved if they had one iota of feedback.
UPDATE- Apparently group 1 had most of their ideas from Ms Drama.
I'm unsure about group 2 (the 2nd one with no feedback). However, group 3, which, imo (and almost all who I talked to who watched the performances on the night), was the best out of the night, the marks were as follows-
20/30
22/30
24/30
26/30
Ok now *I* know that even the 22/30 is a decent mark (though as it goes for drama, will achieve fairly low results in terms of UAI/ATAR whatever due to the subject being dominated in most schools. Though the only comment they recieved on the sheet, the only piece of feedback was that one particular piece, one fairly insignificant piece, could be a little longer (around 3:56 for those who watched the video, the footstomps). They at no point at all justify the mark they gave them, and it's not the first instance this has happened. It's happened quite a bit, a lack of...well...everything on behalf of the teacher (I think it was 4 practice essays they were made to do, with one of them returned, partially marked?). The teacher is constantly blowing her top, she has the shortest fuse and never listens to reason. Maybe not for group 3, but at least for group 1, is there any way to appeal or whatever so that their marks aren't suffering from a teacher who clearly is going through a serious and prolonged (going on a year now) case of PMS and another that doesn't even seem to have any credentials?
This has really upset a lot of the people in the class and I'm just trying to get outside opinions and help.
Thank you for those who have read the whole thing.
Here's the story-
Last wednesday was MAD (Music, Art, Drama) Night at our school and the year 12s did their performances that are being assessed (though they weren't assessed ON the night, but on a later date). There were 3 performances by the groups. The assessment is being double marked by the only drama teacher (see title) and an art (wah??) teacher (see title again), for all intensive purposes they'll be known as Ms Bi..Drama and Ms Art. So the next lesson after the first performances (friday), Ms Drama was talking to the groups, or rather, talking to one group and telling them about stuff to improve, she also said Ms Art needed to tell them things. Oh, and btw, theres a link to the video here -> http://community.boredofstudies.org...think-performance-video-link.html#post4442631. Ms Art told them that they needed to make it more exciting, for them to move around more in parts (they somewhat agree), how things were out of time (music, though that's entirely the fault of the sound crew), with small little things. She had nothing to say about any of the other groups. So that was friday. One person from that particular group was away, ill with something involving puss and his eyes I don't really want to get into it, but in short, he could do barely anything. The possibility of meeting up on either saturday or sunday was destroyed (not blaming the guy, he had puss coming out of his eye, not his fault). The hope was that he would be there on monday so they could quickly go over it for the actual assessment on tuesday. Monday came along and the guy was still away for that lesson, so they could make no changes without the chance of the guy forgetting a change he had only just learnt and the performance being ruined, so they did it as they did (better in fact) at MAD Night. The majority of the group members were pleased with their performances for the assessment, until the marks came around today. Lets say, group 1, who had nothing said to them about their performance at mad night by either teacher, had Ms Drama going off her nut, saying that their ending was quote 'bullshit', that it was 'crap and predictable', forcing one girl into tears about it, The group got marks of less than 18/30 for that performance, which could have been significantly improved if they had one iota of feedback.
UPDATE- Apparently group 1 had most of their ideas from Ms Drama.
I'm unsure about group 2 (the 2nd one with no feedback). However, group 3, which, imo (and almost all who I talked to who watched the performances on the night), was the best out of the night, the marks were as follows-
20/30
22/30
24/30
26/30
Ok now *I* know that even the 22/30 is a decent mark (though as it goes for drama, will achieve fairly low results in terms of UAI/ATAR whatever due to the subject being dominated in most schools. Though the only comment they recieved on the sheet, the only piece of feedback was that one particular piece, one fairly insignificant piece, could be a little longer (around 3:56 for those who watched the video, the footstomps). They at no point at all justify the mark they gave them, and it's not the first instance this has happened. It's happened quite a bit, a lack of...well...everything on behalf of the teacher (I think it was 4 practice essays they were made to do, with one of them returned, partially marked?). The teacher is constantly blowing her top, she has the shortest fuse and never listens to reason. Maybe not for group 3, but at least for group 1, is there any way to appeal or whatever so that their marks aren't suffering from a teacher who clearly is going through a serious and prolonged (going on a year now) case of PMS and another that doesn't even seem to have any credentials?
This has really upset a lot of the people in the class and I'm just trying to get outside opinions and help.
Thank you for those who have read the whole thing.
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