Observations April 8th

On the first day I returned to begin observations i worked with a substitute teacher. There wasn't much for me to do so I watched as the class corrected their assignment given to them to complete over spring break. it was a packet of vocabulary where the students needed to write a definition and example. Overall, the class did poorly and failed to capitalize the fist letter of a sentence and provided no punctuation. The next day i graded and entered their final scores. Did the student not know hot to write a proper sentence or were they just being careless? Based on their previous work and the fact that this was a spring break assignment, I think the students were being negligent. Nevertheless, MSP testing is only a few weeks away and these errors could hurt their scores. For now the best thing students can do is write everyday until capitalization and punctuation are second nature. They have the knowledge. They just need to refine their skills.