“Equity Grading”
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Anonymous
My son has 7 classes, 6 of which have graded assignments (the other is band). Two of those 6 manage to grade promptly, within two weeks. The others take longer, sometimes MUCH longer. Why can certain teachers grade in a timely manner and others cannot. This is not a matter of multiple choice vs. essays either. Clearly some teachers are just better at planning and time management. Maybe those are skills you can work on. |
Anonymous
| Or maybe those teachers are spending their planning times covering for colleagues. My husband hasn't had more than one planning time each week since November. |
Anonymous
No late penalties for homework – because the proposal says it leads to inaccurate grades as it reflects on student’s behavior and not student achievement I agree with this No extra credit – as the proposal says extra credit leads to biased grades and penalizes students with fewer resources This is dumb Unlimited redoes and retakes on assignments Should not be unlimited. Should be within the Quarter No grading for homework as the proposal says mistakes are vital to learning and students are less likely to take risks when they fear they will be graded down for making a mistakes I sort of agree. Grade for completion, not correction |
Anonymous
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To achieve these ends, students should be held accountable for completing their work in a timely manner and meeting deadlines that were reasonably established by their teachers. We pride ourselves on providing useful constructive criticism for our students, analyzing and reflecting on major content and skill-based assignments and providing them with exemplary work from their classmates. We do not see how this practice can continue if the “timeliness of the completion” is not considered in the submission and grading process. Of course, practical/pragmatic elements come into play here as well
Let's take this a part: "reasonably established by their teachers" - rarely is it reasonable and half the time the teachers don't grade on time so . . . "We pride ourselves on providing useful constructive criticism for our students, analyzing and reflecting on major content and skill-based assignments and providing them with exemplary work from their classmates." Nope! Half the time they give grades with no comment They need to worry about their timeliness of grading first. Work on that first! |
Anonymous
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Stewart, who has three children who attend Wakefield High School, says grading homework assignments is vital.
“It gives teachers a sense of what students learned before progressing to the next unit or the next topic,” he said. Teachers are not using homework to guide their topic pace in the classroom. This is a flat out lie. They have X units to cover and the pace accordingly. If kids' HW shows they need to slowdown the teachers do no such thing. I just left a 9th grade transition night where a biology teacher said, we have 12 units to get through and SOL prep so we do a new unit every 2 weeks and test every 2 weeks. Pretty sure if HW showed the kids were not grasping unit 5, she would not slow down. She has her year set and she has to meet it due to the demands of her higher ups. |
Anonymous
And/or use their weekends to focus on themselves and their families, so it takes longer to grade. |
Anonymous
And that is that teacher. I will add in a day or two if it’s needed. |
Anonymous
+100 |
Anonymous
You say there are skills I can work on? Can you suggest some, please? Perhaps I can leave fewer comments on essays, or just write a holistic number on the top and be done with it? The nerve you have suggesting that I don’t have skills after 20 years of successful teaching. And no, workloads are NOT equal. The work varies by discipline, class size, a teacher’s schedule, etc. You have no idea beyond the work your child receives back. Perhaps one teacher has more preps, and therefore needs to spend more time planning than another. Perhaps one has children at home and (gasp!) decides to spend the random weekend day with them instead of grading. (Are they allowed to do that? Your post would suggest not, since clearly that would slow their grading down.) I hope you are more supportive and kind in real life. DCUM really does bring out the worst in people. |
Anonymous
I've had 5 kids go through HS and thankfully I'm on the last one. We have experienced 3 different HSs. Most teachers do not alter pace. They provide a syllabus and what is set from the beginning is what they do |
Anonymous
| These kids are going to be in for a rude awakening when they have a job. |
Anonymous
Eh not really, college is easier than high school and jobs are easier than college. Going from 7-8 areas and bosses down to 4-5 down to 1-3 max. Plus, with most jobs you are given 40 hours a week to do the work. Imagine how much you could get done if you actually spent 40 hours a week doing work in high school or college. |
Anonymous
| Grading homework is stupid. I'm grading mom/dad/tutor's work half the time, and online apps' work the other half. The only things that should be graded are assignments completed in class. Essays should be written in class, math work completed within the classroom walls, etc. Anything that is allowed to leave the classroom is no longer an honest assessment of the students' work. |
Anonymous
That wasn’t my experience at all. My education became increasingly more demanding as I progressed through my degrees. My job now has many specific deadlines that aren’t moveable. I either meet them after producing quality work or I risk being let go. |
Anonymous
+1, my HSer did an internship at a 3D design company and they bring her back every summer and want to hire her after college graduation. She always is surprised that they love her work, and she is 20! College is her biggest stressor. She has 3 more weeks, prepping for finals. She is looking forward to her “less stressful job” in a cubicle for 8 hours a day designing. |