Pain Management: Grading: Part I | Mr. Teachbad

Pain Management: Grading: Part I | Mr. Teachbad:

Pain Management: Grading: Part I

by teachbad

A few months back I asked peo­ple to take the one ques­tion Teacher Annoy­ance Sur­vey. The pur­pose was to see which of the three unavoid­able annoy­ances of teach­ing is most both­er­some to most of you. The vote was split almost exactly into thirds between 1) Tedium and Pre­dictabil­ity, 2) Bell and Chain, and 3) No Career Path.

Here is part one of Tedium: Grad­ing.

How­ever one deals with the daily home­work side of grad­ing, there still await the tests, quizzes, projects and papers. Lit­tle might hope to be worse than your very own stack of 85 Eng­lish papers or Alge­bra II final exams to grade. There will never be a good time to do this. They will sit in a pile and taunt you until you give in. They can wait, but they will not be denied. It is sim­ply the way of things.

There are two basic ways to approach the grad­ing of a giant stack of essays or exams. The first is to start in on them right away. Just dig in; knock­ing them out a few at a time when­ever you have a few min­utes. It starts imme­di­ately,