grading
so i don't like grading very much. i think that is typical of many teachers. the reason i don't like it is because it takes a really long time and it's tedious. plus, it is when i truly find the faults and mistakes in the assignments i've designed. my real dirty secret is that at the beginning of the school year, i almost never assessed my students because i didn't really know how to write tests and i didn't really know how to grade. i also didn't procure a grading program until almost a month into the school year, so if i had graded something, i wouldn't have had anywhere to enter the scores. (i use a grading program called easy grade pro which i love. my math skills are abysmal and it calculates everything for me.)
anyways, grading always comes up around the time of big tests or essays. it took me a very, very long time to grade all of my students persuasive essays. and i am really worried that i lost my 7th graders' essays. i can't find them ANYWHERE. that is not good! but regardless, grading takes FOREVER. and i have a lot of tests to grade before the day is over today. the 8th graders took a test on poetry, and i have graded most of them, but i have a few more to do. the 7th graders took a test on theme--it compared "The Highwayman" and a short story called User Friendly, as well as testing vocab and reading comp for User Friendly. User Friendly is this weird but also entertaining story about a boy who is friends with his computer. it's kind of cool.
UPDATE: the 7th graders didn't really understand the comparison part of the test. they did fine on the rest, though. they will freak out tommorow if they get their tests back with bad grades. i was chatting with a few of them--i can't remember who--and i commented that the culture of their class was that everyone wanted to get an "A." the students i was talking to agreed with me. the thing is, i didn't set up that culture in the class, they just showed up and started acting like that. it makes me laugh sometimes.
i am off to finish my grading and entering grades into my program. have a great week!
anyways, grading always comes up around the time of big tests or essays. it took me a very, very long time to grade all of my students persuasive essays. and i am really worried that i lost my 7th graders' essays. i can't find them ANYWHERE. that is not good! but regardless, grading takes FOREVER. and i have a lot of tests to grade before the day is over today. the 8th graders took a test on poetry, and i have graded most of them, but i have a few more to do. the 7th graders took a test on theme--it compared "The Highwayman" and a short story called User Friendly, as well as testing vocab and reading comp for User Friendly. User Friendly is this weird but also entertaining story about a boy who is friends with his computer. it's kind of cool.
UPDATE: the 7th graders didn't really understand the comparison part of the test. they did fine on the rest, though. they will freak out tommorow if they get their tests back with bad grades. i was chatting with a few of them--i can't remember who--and i commented that the culture of their class was that everyone wanted to get an "A." the students i was talking to agreed with me. the thing is, i didn't set up that culture in the class, they just showed up and started acting like that. it makes me laugh sometimes.
i am off to finish my grading and entering grades into my program. have a great week!
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6:15 PM
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