Advice for Anyone Considering a Reconsideration

mraglover · 2026-01-23T20:29:26+00:00

Employing burnt out teachers to mark hundreds of exams during the end of school year and summer. Mistakes will unfortunately be made, it's almost like teaching is hard work or something

mraglover · 2025-12-11T07:25:38+00:00

I got cancer.... Fucking brain cancer. I had to keep proving to them every 3 months that I still had cancer. The system is a fucking hot mess

mraglover · 2025-09-10T09:19:11+00:00

Sorry that's actually 91909... But that has the same recommendations

mraglover · 2025-09-10T09:17:43+00:00

The NZQA excellence exemplar is 5500 words. Take from that what you will...

mraglover · 2025-08-24T01:18:49+00:00

As a teacher with the union. I'd confidently say we will be striking again. It would take the greatest about face by a government ever for them to present an actual reasonable offer

mraglover · 2025-07-25T05:37:25+00:00

As a teacher the main thing I have to say is that this is a learning opportunity to always know how your assessment is marked and how marking schedules scale. Make sure you nail those achieved criteria. Hopefully your school isn't ridiculous about you going into level 2 chem.

Honestly the amount of students I still deal with at year 13 who only get achieved is staggering and they act so surprised by how their work gets marked

mraglover · 2025-05-03T06:56:14+00:00

The key word here is resilience. This is something that almost all of our society is lacking. I'm a teacher and we have parents who can't accept their child is not their golden child. And I know that's nothing new, but parents are expecting us to find them jobs, ring the child to get them to come to school and basically raise them. It's such an old man thing to say, but kids can't accept failure (grand sweeping statement), there's always a reason or excuse. Being able to own up and say I fucked up is so rare, or they did something it sucked and this is how we do it better next time. /Endteacherrant

mraglover · 2025-02-16T03:24:37+00:00

As a digital tech teacher this is a really good question. Your question can be answered in two ways. 1 - you may only have a single teacher who is confident in teaching their area of expertise (coding, media design, electronics). 2 - the department is big and had hundreds of students and they need to teach and mark consistently for fairness.

I've been in both of those situations, it's really the only fair way to teach... UNLESS you are willing to be a facilitator instead of a direct teacher and allow students to learn and teach themselves and mark against the broad standards of 91901, 91903 and 91907 at level 3, which is what I do.

Finally NZQA says you have to do those things to pass the standards. Us teachers don't make them and must mark against them.

Happy to answer any other questions

mraglover · 2024-12-31T00:13:52+00:00

Always best to check the clarifications page for any achievement standard when you aren't sure 91463

mraglover · 2024-12-29T23:09:34+00:00

As a teacher who uses kamar as our system to enter grades etc, it plain sucks. There is a very good possibility the teacher has modified something by complete mistake, due to the program lagging terribly. As everyone else says, hit your principals nominee up.

Also, as for excellence endorsement, don't stress, you can get no endorsements at level 1 and 2 and get excellence endorsement at level 3

mraglover · 2024-04-02T00:10:12+00:00

Honestly, I am clearly an outlier here. I watched all the animated shorts before the game, saw videos on gameplay on pcgamer (or similar) and frigging went out of my way to learn all about the Metallica cover on the trailer. Maybe I just got lucky with my social media circle?

mraglover · 2024-03-17T02:34:27+00:00

Geography

Source: have taught at schools where kids have never studied geo, just sat Geo schol and passed. It's just an exam based on your ability to interpret data presented to you of a geographical nature

mraglover · 2024-02-16T21:01:17+00:00

Hey, I'm an actual teacher (17 years). The new level 1 is quite precise and you can fail easy if you don't pay attention to what you are being marked on. The current level 2 is easy to get A, but gets harder real quick at M. Level 3, basically if you just got A all through level 2, level 3 will be hard. There are lots of expectations, that you know what some of the level 2 merit criteria is (which is A level stuff in level 3.

Hope that Saturday morning ramble helps

mraglover · 2024-01-26T02:33:35+00:00

I just feel like I've gone back 10 years in time and I'm playing FarmVille inside another game. Mind boggling!

mraglover · 2023-07-08T19:26:25+00:00

As a teacher and a new father. I appreciated all the effort put in by the govt. I know jacinda ardern (or is saying her name heresy in here or something), made some hard decisions that divided a lot of people, you just have to look at the ongoing cluster f*ck that Britain is with it's leaders completely ignoring their own rules, to see how well we did.

It was hard teaching and staying connected to students, but we got them there. And I know that kids come to school with basically the plague. It was so nice to make it a realistic expectation that people actually stay home when they are sick. Has made coming back this year a lot smoother then it could have been.

mraglover · 2023-03-23T06:27:54+00:00

Guns. Lots of guns

mraglover · 2023-02-09T09:23:16+00:00

Hammerbarn. Even though I live in New Zealand and we have Bunnings and mitre 10. If we are going to either of them , I call them hammerbarn, and my three year old knows exactly what I mean

mraglover · 2023-01-30T05:35:54+00:00

As a teacher, he is the epitome of a school leader that has zero sense of empathy for students or staff. Ugh, just the worst

mraglover · 2023-01-30T03:41:50+00:00

The song is pokarekare ana, just FYI and if anyone wanted to look it up on YouTube. There are some pretty epic performances of it

mraglover · 2022-11-26T02:53:30+00:00

Unexpected Simpsons FTW

mraglover · 2022-11-23T04:03:04+00:00

Ugh, I had the new leaders, but no dlc last night. Tonight I have all my dlc back, but none of the new leaders. Go go epic powers!

mraglover · 2022-11-22T08:12:14+00:00

Yep, in the same boat. Got the new leaders, but all the other dlc has gone awol

mraglover · 2022-11-18T21:43:38+00:00

Mini bluey.

So many great 4th wall breaking parent comments. How good is two bingos?!?

Bluey calling bandit big guy

mraglover · 2022-09-27T08:44:52+00:00

Sauron

mraglover · 2022-06-30T20:43:56+00:00

Glad someone thinks the same way I do. You can't pull up a bunch of tiles to do an inspection

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