Saturday, April 26, 2008
Giving Grades
Giving grades especially on writing was a difficult thing for me to do. It was so difficult because I felt as if I was judging them. And not having seen what they were working on, the grades that I gave just did not seem like they should have been given at least not some of them. I don't know what else to say except that it was difficult. I don't know what the rest of of did but I found it easiest just to go by the rubric that their teacher had provided yet some of the grades that I assigned with it made me unhappy because they were missing things so I had to deduct points for that. I did see a lot of improvement between the drafts and the final paper though. It was great to see that some of the students did hold valve for my comments.
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Grading was definitely the hardest part of the whole essay/conference process. I think if the students had really been my students I would have felt better about it.
I found the rubric restrictive but again, if it were mine I obviously would have felt better about it. I thought it was weighted too much toward the format and citation and not enough to content, flow and grammar--but maybe there was a reason Mrs. Oxford weighted it the way she did. She's been the teacher longer than me so...
I think that grading will be a challenging area for me. I am def. a softy. Time will tell I suppose.
I really enjoyed the RHS process. It was difficult to find the time, but def. worth while. It was helpful as well. I really got that first hands on experience of actually "assigning a grade." It really wasn't as difficult as I thought. I know I will be a softy too at times, prob. more often than not, but I also found myself-- easiler determing the grade for the student's essays. In most cases it was apparent the amount of work ethic went into their writing, not saying always. But, It was nice to get the experience and to see my comments going into action. :)
I will agree with Michelle that the grading was definitely the hardest part of this assignment. The grading would have been much easier if I had actually been the one who was teaching them and designed the rubric myself. They were also missing some of the materials that were supposed to be with their essays. I did not grade them too harshly because I assumed that the missing materials had been presented to Mrs. Oxford in person.
I think that I went pretty light on them because I did not want to come off as a jerk. I can be pretty mean when it comes to grading others' works if I am not careful. I am trying to add a little more mercy to my grading standards.
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