Schools have changed, but in practice the business of teaching is much the same as it ever was. Regardless of class size or the type of school you’re in or even where in the world you’re teaching, the chances are that you play pretty well the same role in your classroom as a teacher did one-hundred years ago.
As a teacher you run the class, dole out the work, make sure everyone is on task, explain things, help those who need it, maintain order, look after a hundred different issues that might arise that on paper have nothing to do with what you’re trying to teach, take in the work when it’s finished, administer the affairs of a class full of differing needs and maybe, somewhere along the line, have a moment to reflect on how it’s all going.
In the 21st century, just as in the 19th or anywhere throughout history, a teacher is a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
But there’s one thing we forgot in that list above, and there’s a reason for that. Marking is often overlooked when others try to make a full accounting of a teacher’s time. After all, think the uninitiated, it’s just correcting the work that the children have already done – how long could that take? As every teacher knows, it can take a lot longer than they might expect, and a lot longer than it should. So often marking is work teachers are required to do at home, when their “real” work is finished. It’s done when off the clock, or indeed at any time they can get away from the million other requirements of their profession.
This is where CARS & STARS Online comes in. A unique and sophisticated online reading program that teaches children to become better readers through the research-proven application of reading strategies, the program’s basic structure is already one geared to taking many of the headaches out of literacy instruction for teachers. There are no resources to remember and no separate records to maintain.
But there’s one massive benefit of CARS & STARS Online for teachers that we haven’t already covered. There’s no marking. None. The program is entirely based around multiple-choice responses that are marked by the software itself, meaning the work is corrected – and results reported directly to the teacher, instantly and anywhere – entirely without the teacher needing to do a thing. How’s that for freeing up some time to focus on what really matters?
So now with CARS & STARS Online you can remove marking from your workload not just because it’s overlooked but because it’s already taken care of.
If you are interested in learning more about the CARS & STARS Online subscriptions and how they can help children to achieve better results, then sign up for a free trial to be an integral part of your child’s reading success.
