Block scheduling, grad school, new books for courses, new students, life….I feel like I have so many reasons why this school year is especially grueling for me. I always feel like I am playing catch up and with break, I finally feel like I have some breathing room. Hopefully I can keep it up with a post a week…I actually put it in my calendar as a task. For some reason, that seems to help me get things done when an alarm is going off telling me to do it now! A new year is right around the corner and new resolutions…like staying on top of blogging and grading! Speaking of grading….
This stack of tests/quizzes are staring me down from across the room and as I pretend to grade them (make the answer key and then get distracted to do something else) I wonder how useful will they be to my students….
- Will they remember what they were thinking two weeks ago?
- If I make note of an error will they bother to look at it?
- Can students remember how they tackled a problem if it has been two long?
- Will writing a lot of comments be helpful or just clutter the page?
- If I went over how to do all the problems in class be more or less beneficial than writing comments?
Michael Pershan’s (http://rationalexpressions.blogspot.com/) has been exploding with feedback discussion and it has been making me think what would be most helpful to students? Generally, I give the feedback asap so that way it is still fresh but I wonder how much effort I should put in over break if they might not even remember what they did in the first place. Are these comments going to help anyone but me?
Decisions…decisions…
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