The Grind of Grading

11/10/2017

Why am I spending hours reading over and over the same thing. 

What do I mean by that? 

Well, we just did a Socratic seminar, and the students had to answer 10 different questions using the RACE format. 

It’s been taking me about 25 minutes per student to read over all 10 answers, and to give pertinent feedback. 

All that good stuff.

But Wait!

After going through several sessions at the AMLE conference, missing potential opportunities for pedagogical conversations, and having a virtually sleepless night wondering when I was ever going to get this done, it suddenly occurred to me....

Why on earth am I looking at all 10? 

The pattern is the same, the kids tend to have the same mistakes on each one, why am I making this so difficult on myself? 

A Much Better Idea

Why not do a generic go-over for everyone, honing in on the common mistakes and misconceptions,and then have the children have an opportunity to edit, learn as they make corrections, then pick their favorite for me to ‘grade’?

Wouldn’t that be better? That way I am sure they are going back over the work on reflecting upon the results, and I am grading work post-practice & learning.

Plus I can compare results with the class that I toiled over for three days, in every moment that I had. 

My kids need me, not an exhausted version worried at the backlog in Google Classroom.

I need to see their work, and feedback is vital, but this seems a much more healthy, and himself pedagogically sound, way of accomplishing the goal. 

New Ideas To Mull

http://catlintucker.com/2017/08/grade-interviews/

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/1693716?tabid=055887e6-4a4c-da0b-c72a-4c08123b0c45