Quito: Revisiting with Visitors
Pululahua Geobotanical Reserve The quimester is over... which is what a semester is called at least at my school. It was a long and stressful five weeks between Christmas Break and the February Break. February break also coincides with Carnaval , which I might experience more of when I go to Panama next week. Before really getting into the events of my first half of break, I have some successes to celebrate! My students took their exams for quimester one , and it was like nothing I have ever experienced in all of my teaching. Although I "curved" their scores using the school's " Diploma Program/Middle Years Program " (DP/MYP) conversion chart , only one student failed the exams. And they were really tough! Even without the curve, all of the passing grades were over a 70%. The only exam I had to develop 100% on my own was for my 10th graders. The first quimester was interesting since I have them only for four periods over three days, every six day cycle...