Monday, March 9, 2009
Sorry for..
One of the things that I have had trouble with thus far in my student teaching is how I grade essays on tests. Being in a small school, I know which students live in a tough situation, and which do not. This leads me to grade those students who do come from a poor background more lenient. This is unfair to higher achieving students with more advantages, because I am grading them harder. If I could do it over again, I would grade just as hard no matter what the situation, because I do not want to give my students a false sense of success either. I want them to achieve above and beyond mine and their own expectations.
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Yeah. This is tough and I sometimes feel the same way. But I have to remember that we really are not doing our students any favors by slacking up on them. In fact with those students that are struggling - they need our feedback more than anyone else. You might want to think about giving tons of feedback and then allowing all students to make partial pts if they fix the mistakes. At least they have to learn what the did wrong and put in effort to improve their grade.
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