With great power comes...

I just finished typing up a batch of student evaluations for my ESL classes -- about 11 students overall. Understand that I need to do these in order to get paid; there's no getting out of it. The stress comes when you realize that not only will my company (ELAM) be getting these evaluations, but so will the HR department of my students' company. What I say may be used by HR for future purposes. This oddly places a great deal of pressure on me to get it "right." It's all the harder when you realize I don't normally take a lot of time during class to do individual evaluations, but sort-of take the class as a whole. Sure, I have a sense of who my strong and weak students are, but compared to some other classes I've taught, I just don't feel I'm qualified to write a detailed evaluation for each student.

I did it. But I didn't like doing it. I suddenly understand the moods my mom gets into whenever she needs to write report cards.