2022-08-22

2022-08-22, Monday

Teaching my regular classes at the Ross Farnsworth - East Valley YMCA.

Based on her performance, I’ve decided to promote the young lady who tested last week to a “9b” kyu. I suppose you could call that 3/4 of the way to a “full” 9th kyu grading. She knew all of the material, but her “polish” wasn’t quite where I thought it needed to be for a full kyu promotion. As I mentioned last week, I like to write up my feedback for each student when they take a test. That guarantees that I have to be intentional about my reasoning, and serves as a record I can go back to later to see how each student is progressing. I also read those evaluations to the whole class so that my reasoning is transparent and so students can learn what I do (and don’t) like to see in testing.