Who works harder in your class - you or the students? If you are working much harder than they are, something isn't going the way it should. What do I mean by working harder? Do you spend hours grading assignments that it takes students a very short time to do? Do you have 15-20 grades per grading period for non-test assignments? Are you collecting lots of papers which you can't find time to deal with except at night, when you would rather be doing something else? Then you are working too hard!
Want some suggestions? Here's one!
When you think about assessments, what about student driven assessments? Instead of your grading students, let the grade each other. That kind of grading is great for vocabulary quizzes, crossword puzzles, fill in the blank, true-false and other simple assessments which are designed to get a feel for where students are on their way to completion of a goal or objective. How do you keep students from cheating or helping others to cheat? Use student numb
ers instead of names, and a certain color pen for checking. Have students sign the work they check. If they falsify an answer, those points are taken away from their points. Sounds complicated but isn't.
ers instead of names, and a certain color pen for checking. Have students sign the work they check. If they falsify an answer, those points are taken away from their points. Sounds complicated but isn't. Share your suggestions, please.
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