EP254 An instant way to have fewer assignments to grade
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 10 April 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
No, the answer is not throwing the whole stack in a recycling bin. (Although it's perfectly fine to toss out some assignments from time-to-time.) And, the answer isn't to give more assignments digitally. That can help make assessment more effective and efficient, but the pile-up of student work awaiting feedback online can feel just as daunting as a stack of papers.
This episode will help you explore ways you may be overcomplicating the assignments you give or your approach to assessment, and think outside the box about how to streamline.
I'll share how to instantly reduce the assignments you need to grade, and help you uncover your own answer to the following questions:
- Is there ONE type of assignment that I'm giving to students which is taking me forever to grade, and that I might be able to reduce or change up a bit?
- What can I do to experiment or push back on expectations this year, in order to make my grading workload more sustainable?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 254 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm your host Angela Watson, and I'm here to speak encouragement into the hearts of |
| 0:11.8 | educators and get you informed and energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.2 | Today, I'm sharing an instant way to create fewer assignments to grade. |
| 0:21.1 | Visit truthforteachers.com to get an easy to read, easy to share version of this podcast |
| 0:26.1 | episode. |
| 0:29.8 | I wanted to tell you about a podcast that I recently discovered called Like a Spunge |
| 0:34.6 | that has now become a sponsor of Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:37.8 | It's produced by the nonprofit Great Schools, and it explores how children learn. |
| 0:42.8 | The target audience is usually parents, but this year, like a sponge, |
| 0:47.0 | delved into something totally relevant for teachers. |
| 0:49.8 | How to transform this 200-year-old institution known as the American High School |
| 0:54.6 | to make it more equitable, student-centered, and humane. |
| 0:58.7 | In each episode, we hear stories from educators who reinvented their practices |
| 1:03.3 | to solve for disengaged students, trauma, and a legacy of racism. |
| 1:08.1 | It's all part of transforminghighschool.org, a bilingual collection of multimedia content. |
| 1:14.6 | You can find the Like a Spunge podcast anywhere that you listen to podcasts, |
| 1:18.2 | and let me know what you think. |
| 1:21.1 | So our topic today is about finding an instant way to have fewer assignments to grade. |
| 1:27.4 | And no, the answer is not during the whole stack of papers and the recycling bin, |
| 1:32.0 | although it is perfectly fine to toss out some assignments from time to time. |
| 1:36.1 | And the answer isn't to give more assignments digitally. |
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