I have been teaching in Turkey for six years, but this is the first time I've been responsible for report cards -- that's how little responsibility I had at my old job, and that's how much it's increased here. I've been vaguely aware of the Ministry of Education's system here - that is very test heavy, but never responsible for it. All major subjects are required to have three exams a semester. So fifth graders will have one to two exams a week starting in October in order to meet this requirement.
In addition, we are required to do certain number of project grades - and we can define these to be whatever we wish.
So in line with my English team, I'm grading my last project this weekend, then entering lots of grades into two grading systems - the country's overloaded net, and the school's.
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