While reading through the text, I noticed the section on software written to perform various types of educational applications. I remembered several years ago when our faculty was introduced to STI. The office personnel and administrators had to go to numerous inservices and training sessions to learn how to implement this in our school. Without getting into all the specifics of the program, STI is designed to manage tasks such as enrollment, attendance, lunch counts, student profiles, behavior and grades.
The teacher has access to a gradebook, classroom attendance, lunch count information, lesson plans, progress reports and report cards. It all seems to be a great plan and a very handy tool to use. Grades and behavior documentation are at our fingertips and readily available for our use. This is all well and good until the system crashes or we have a power failure. In our area, this happens a lot. Grades will need to be posted, progress reports or report cards will need to be printed out and the famous words "STI is down!", will come over the intercom. These are the times when we all pull out the calculators and paper grade books and thank the Lord that we did the double work to write the grades in that cute little gradebook and post them on STI.
I am certain that in the future the bugs will be removed and all of the glitches corrected. Until then, I will continue to do the double work to please myself and the administration at my school.
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