EP238 Get your grading under control via these 7 mental shifts + habits (with Megan Faherty)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This episode is going to be a game changer! I'm talking with Megan Faherty, a long-time user of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek program who's currently in her 17th year of teaching. Megan shares tons of practical strategies and a whole new approach to thinking about how you grade that has helped her reclaim her nights and weekends:
- Shift 1: If you don't have time to grade it, students don't have time to learn from it.
- Shift 2: Put grading on your to-do list when you assign it.
- Shift 3: Grade the way that works.
- Shift 4: Reduce guilt by being honest about your grading timeline.
- Shift 5: Plan backwards from a goal.
- Shift 6: Do the worst thing first.
- Shift 7: Reduce dithering about points and decision fatigue
Check out Megan's guest post as part of our Truth for Teachers collective here, then listen to the episode as I do a deeper dive with Megan and share my own tips and tricks, too.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 238 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host, Angela Watson, and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth |
| 0:11.6 | into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.2 | Today, we're talking about seven mental shifts and habits that you can make to get your |
| 0:20.8 | grading under control. |
| 0:22.9 | Visit truthforteachers.com to get an easy-to-read, easy-to-share blog post version of this podcast |
| 0:28.6 | episode, and you'll get a sneak peek at our new truth for teachers' writers' collective |
| 0:33.3 | that's launching soon. |
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| 1:07.3 | simply by going to definedlearning.com-forward-slash-truth. |
| 1:12.7 | That's definedlearning.com-forward-slash-truth. |
| 1:18.5 | Before we jump into today's episode, can I ask a favor that I don't request very often |
| 1:22.9 | on here? |
| 1:24.1 | I would love for you to leave a review for the show on iTunes or wherever you get your |
| 1:28.2 | podcasts. |
| 1:29.5 | You can click through to do it right from your podcast player app that you're using right |
| 1:32.9 | now, and there's also a link in the show notes too. |
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