I tend to be the lover of most everything (exclude all reptiles, anything smelly, and a few source of carbohydrates) but there is just one thing that will take me "near eternity" to get to and finish...
the art of ASSESSMENT. I consider myself brilliant in creating teacher-friendly, paperless, budget friendly in-class activities and tasks but my biggest struggle is finding the easiest means to collect, grade, record, and return homework, tests, and quizzes (Speaking of which, I need to create a chapter test and a quiz for my classes as we speak).
I have implemented a procedure in class this year that is seemingly accessible until it was sabotaged by a few cute and helpful but clueless students who decided to lend their hands. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the help I can get and my love extend towards each and every one of them.
This year, I decided to abandon the modern classroom arrangements and just go by the traditional "rows."
This way, I can collect all assignments by rows, clip them, grade them, record them, clip them back together and easily return them. Just in case the students are submitting a missing assignment or late work, I have them label their papers with their row numbers so I know where to bring them.
To add to this, I only collect their homework once a week. I have students pass up their homework at the beginning of the class time (usually during their warm ups). I go through them, stamp or sign them and pass them back by rows. After going over the warm up, students correct their own homework as a class. Students who did no do their homework can still redeem themselves by paying attention during the correction process or by redoing their homework and submitting them for half credit on Friday (points are always better than no points/I also know who they are because "I know" or simply because it's missing a stamp or a signature).
Smart me...
less grading and easy collection and distribution.
I figured my students understood what I was doing. Just a few days ago, I had kind students walk in to my classroom after school to offer help. I had asked them to double check to make sure each individual (clipped) piles within each periods consisted of assignments from students in the correct rows (I teach three periods and each period consist of seven rows/ So, there were three piles each with 7 clipped stacks of papers). The students went ahead and dug into the piles. After half-an-hour, the kids were done and I found myself 7 stacks of papers. They went ahead and combined all periods and created seven new stacks of papers... and the papers were for some reason, alphabetized.
Thank you students you guys never cease to amaze me.
note to self, my "explaining skills" need a little help.
well.... enough said. I do need to get to work.
the art of ASSESSMENT. I consider myself brilliant in creating teacher-friendly, paperless, budget friendly in-class activities and tasks but my biggest struggle is finding the easiest means to collect, grade, record, and return homework, tests, and quizzes (Speaking of which, I need to create a chapter test and a quiz for my classes as we speak).
I have implemented a procedure in class this year that is seemingly accessible until it was sabotaged by a few cute and helpful but clueless students who decided to lend their hands. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the help I can get and my love extend towards each and every one of them.
This year, I decided to abandon the modern classroom arrangements and just go by the traditional "rows."
This way, I can collect all assignments by rows, clip them, grade them, record them, clip them back together and easily return them. Just in case the students are submitting a missing assignment or late work, I have them label their papers with their row numbers so I know where to bring them.
To add to this, I only collect their homework once a week. I have students pass up their homework at the beginning of the class time (usually during their warm ups). I go through them, stamp or sign them and pass them back by rows. After going over the warm up, students correct their own homework as a class. Students who did no do their homework can still redeem themselves by paying attention during the correction process or by redoing their homework and submitting them for half credit on Friday (points are always better than no points/I also know who they are because "I know" or simply because it's missing a stamp or a signature).
Smart me...
less grading and easy collection and distribution.
I figured my students understood what I was doing. Just a few days ago, I had kind students walk in to my classroom after school to offer help. I had asked them to double check to make sure each individual (clipped) piles within each periods consisted of assignments from students in the correct rows (I teach three periods and each period consist of seven rows/ So, there were three piles each with 7 clipped stacks of papers). The students went ahead and dug into the piles. After half-an-hour, the kids were done and I found myself 7 stacks of papers. They went ahead and combined all periods and created seven new stacks of papers... and the papers were for some reason, alphabetized.
Thank you students you guys never cease to amaze me.
note to self, my "explaining skills" need a little help.
well.... enough said. I do need to get to work.
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