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High school teacher? I'm just guessing you teach at a secondary level because an elementary classroom teacher is not going to be able to be that automated. There is no way to get all of that done when you are running a morning meeting, facilitating a sense making session, meeting with small math groups while monitoring stations during Math Workshop, meeting with students during Writing Workshop, meeting with groups during an intervention block, preparing materials from the science kit, meeting with reading groups, etc.[/quote]

Nope!  I teach elementary school too.

You HAVE to figure out ways to do it.  Do less.  Grade less. Provide less feedback.

For elementary school "automated" means checklists and stamps and universal rubrics and basically just lowering your standards.

I've seen young teachers writing detailed responses every week into student journals.  Takes hours. Then, the leave after 3 years "because soooooo much is expected of us".

The school district will squeeze every inch of work out of you if you let them.  "It's for the kids!!"

Ideas:

https://www.weareteachers.com/save-time-grading

Batch scoring Homework Grades 3-5 Rubric

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Assignment-Rubric-Elementary-1469587

Universal Rubric:
https://truthforteachers.com/streamline-standards-based-grading-best-practices/

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Are you meeting with reading groups? Math groups? Intervention groups? When do you find the time to find the texts for reading groups and figure out math stations? Does your district not expect you to do these things? Are all of your students on task?[/quote]

Yes.  Planning these things does take time, but you have to try to streamline it and go for "good enough" and not "amazing".  Of course if you repeat grade levels a few times it helps and takes up less time as you develop your activities and plans.

Keep it simple.  Less is more.   Use what your school district gives you.. If they expect you to run Math centers or stations during small group time, what resources do they have available?  Don't reinvent the wheel.

https://jillianstarrteaching.com/math-group-time-saving-tips

I'm not sure what you mean about needing planning time to find texts for your reading groups. Does your school not have a book room? Do you have online access to texts?

https://jenniferfindley.com/guided-reading-texts/

The biggest thing though is at least to keep assessment and grading to during the school day. Build in multiple opportunities where the students are quiet and occupied when you can do so.  Stop taking journals and workbooks and worksheets home for sure.

Two of my best grading times for young elementary:

1. handwriting practice linked to spelling list (print or cursive, kids choose) I let them use special pens.  They sell assess using a student friendly rubric. If finished early they draw a picture of three of the words.  This is 5 minutes+ of quiet time where I can finish some scoring.

2. playdoh letter formation of vowel digraphs (aw, er, ou etc). I do this after each spelling test.  I have worksheets with picture cues for the vowel teams and small things of playdoh just for this activity.  They roll out the playdo into snakes and decorate the pictures.   One worksheet takes about 5 minutes on average. I sit at the back table and call kids up one by one. I have my grade book open on my laptop; I enter the grades from the spelling tests while I call the kids back to me to tell me the sound of their vowel team and a word it is used in (meanwhile I'm just entering spelling grades into the computer.). The kids have numbers they use as well as their names so it is easy to put their papers in order and I just flip through and enter the score. [/quote]

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