Grading

[ewigweibliche]

I don't think I'm cut out to teach. I don't want to grade papers next quarter. On one hand, it's nice to flex my editing muscles, but on the other hand.... oh I don't care. I hate reading the bad writing

Comments

[lopezuna]

Grading is my least favorite part of teaching, and assignments in Econ are invariably math problems. Ugh, grading essays, sounds 10 times worse.

[ewigweibliche]

Yes, at least with math it's much more straightforward. I imagine at the higher levels of math (with which I have no experience) there is some flexibility and creativity possible. I'm not getting the benefit of teaching and discussing, just the grading of essays.

[bunnyborealis]

And then there are the students who write a fair to poor essay in English, put it through on-line translation software, to turn in for a foreign language assignment. It became rather easy to discern which ones were guilty, though I couldn't just dismiss the product. I *still* had to treat it as a completed assignment, and mark it as if the student had actually done the work.

Right - academia is too much non-teaching to make the teaching worthwhile any longer. That's my take-away this year.

[ewigweibliche]

I admit I was tempted to do that when I was learning Latin. But I'm glad I never did. I worked DAMN HARD for that B-!!

It's sad about the bureaucratic hoo-ha. You are a gifted teacher.

[honeyrider]

grading as an ELA teacher is depressing.

sometimes i contemplate teaching a 101 college level composition course but i don't know if i can handle the drudgery of grading 50 freshman essays every week.

[ewigweibliche]

There was one ELA student in my classes and you know? His essay was better than a lot of the English students. But I think he's dropped, which is too bad. There were certain errors that only he made, but his work sounded exactly like a Japanese or Korean learning English! And yet, his grammar and structure was still far better than many native English speakers. Oy.

[artricia]

We drink.

Honestly, the grading is the worst part; the other stuff is what makes it worthwhile, Also, we do things like use a rubric/checklist, and just list the top three problems (more is overwhelming).

[hrafntinna]

Grading is horrible. Rubrics are key. Not correcting all the errors is also key. I've done things like underline the spelling and grammatical errors on the first page, maybe first and second, and send them off to fix them.