Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.

Y'all, I get sucked into those like TikTok trends every once in a while and they can easily get you suckered into doing something new, okay? Like the egg thing.

Didn't work, all right?

This can either lead to some, like, genius thing that revolutionizes your life,

or it can be a complete bust and a waste of time.

So in this new series, we want to talk about some current trends

and what it means about your productivity. But first,

let's hear a time-sucking hurdle from Soley. Now, this is a very lengthy one, so I'm going to do my

best to read it without messing up at all. Soley says, deciding how to manage grading papers in a timely

manner without sacrificing meaningful assignments that

actually show student learning. For example, multiple choice assignments are great because they can

be graded by computer through Google Forms, but does that really show me what my students know and

understand? I don't feel like it always does, so I choose assignments that require students to give written

responses, but it seems like I never really have the time to actually grade those types of

assignments without staying past contract hours. I tried to see how only working contract hours

would go this year in an attempt to set boundaries, but it's only

week four of school and I feel so behind already. And some assignments that I planned to grade

ended up as a complete grade or in file 13, I'm sorry, a completion grade or in file 13,

which I don't know what that means. Does that mean like... File 13 is like the trash.

Oh, okay.

Where does that come from, though?

I don't know, but somehow I know it, which is pretty miraculous, like that I know

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