Lady Celestial Stars wonderful story

Part 180

: Normal School Schedule VS New CurriculumChapter Text

That night, the teachers all adjourned to their offices to grade the different papers that some of them had received. For those that weren't normal teachers, Rivers had given them the homework assignment to give to the students and gave them a key of acceptable answers and to take it up with their experienced counterparts.

While most of the teachers, (that were the standard for the first three years), only had three or so year students that required them to to grade papers or make sure they had done their required reading, the teachers that were specifically for third years or up had as few as two years of students and at the most (only in River's case) all seven years.

Rivers had collaborated with Dumbledore as to shorten the classes from the normal length down to almost less than half of the usual length to give Defense Against the Dark Arts class quite a bit more time. Rivers had to make up for the lack of substantial teaching for two and a half years and needed all the time he could get to getting the students up to snuff on their lessons.

For example, the first years only had four teachers give them homework from the day before, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms and History of Magic. Though they had it pretty easy, all except for Rivers' class, they only had to read bits out of their textbooks and then answer a short quiz in class the next day.

Rivers had asked them to practice several new spells and a short essay on what they use the spells for. While it wasn't all that hard, he had asked them to give him instances where the spells could be useful in. Though...quite a few of the first years had taken into account when Harry, Ron or Hermione had used the spells and wrote it down. While he gave them points, they didn't get full marks as to having their own notion of when and where to use it.

The second years had the same amount of classes that requested homework done of them, Charms, Potions, and Astronomy. They had to stay up a bit later than what the others years had to due to they being the first students to have Astronomy class since the starting of the readings.

The teachers had to admit, while it was a little odd having all the year students together for class in the largest classrooms that the castle had, they had to admit that it was a little faster to get them all the information, but the downside was that they couldn't dedicate their time to the students that needed them the most. They would have to rely on the Prefects and Headboy and Headgirl to assist the students if they asked for questions.

It was the consensus, they couldn't wait for the classes to get back to normal, so they can easily measure out where the students were in their studies.

Rivers was in one of the spare offices going through all the paperwork that he had acquired. While Moody had agreed to take on the more practical work of Defense for the fourth years and under, he still had to take on the quick assessment tests that he asked of all the students.

While he had given the staff a pretty quick look over on their skills, he still had to find out where he had to work the hardest at. It seemed that while he was worried about the fifth years, it was the seventh years that would really have the problems when it came to the N.E.W.T.s tests. Rivers would have to get some assistance with that if he was to get them through their end of the year tests and into the outside world.

Moody was a good teacher when it came to the practical, but when it came to the theory part of the classes...he was not as enthusiastic about it. He would do it, but he said that it wouldn't be his preference. Better to experience things first hand as opposed to take someone's misconceived opinion.

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Harry stretched slowly on the sofa of the rooms he was staying in, working on his homework. The teachers remembered that he couldn't use magic, so he was working over time on the theoretical part of the homework and had much more paper homework than the rest of the other fifth years.