Teachers of DU!: What's More Fun Than Grading Student Work?

[Plaid Adder]

Which of the following unpleasant things would you rather endure than grade the work that YOU, moron that you are, assigned your students?

[trof]

1. The canings

<snicker>

[SOteric]

2. Eating a bowl

of mouldy, fermented banana slugs.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Creative genital torture.

I'm a teacher too. (Not school but IT, but I occasionally have to grade works.)

[LittleApple81]

4. I have noticed that people in IT are particularly prone to hand in other

people's work as their own. Do you have this experience in your classes?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. No, all the work is done in-class.

So far, at least.

[mikehiggins]

6. Watching the light go on

in a kid's eyes when he suddenly grasps a concept and makes it his own. Priceless.

[Dudley_DUright]

7. Love teaching but hate grading

I always get hammered in my student evaluations for getting stuff back late since I always put grading off until I am absolutely forced to do so. On the otherhand, it is my own fault since I tend to like students to get lots of practice on homework assignments and I like to give lots of quizzes and exams to check how students are doing. I am definitely not a one midterm and one final kind of teacher.

[CRK7376]

18. Thank goodness

I hated the profs that only gave one or two tests, and a paper....as a high school teacher I give the kids lots of options to achieve success. Some excel, some just get by, others fail, and then there are those that don't even try....I've always tried to grade and get back immediately tests and papers. Often makes for miserable weekends for me and the family....Seldom do I assign homework though, lots of class work and assigned reading, but not alot of take home stuff. I know that most willnot do it or will be haphazard at best.

[gibbsvol]

8. as a high school art teacher...

I'd have to say it blows. I try to grade according to effort and productivity rather than talent level. But the students just don't seem to get that. Also, I have always had a problem with our grading system. Its so hard to give a specific number grade to something as subjective as art and creativity.

[ulysses]

9. DIY emasculation

Honestly, though, I'd rather grade papers than talk to some of the parents who want to know why their six-year-old budding Einstein isn't learning division yet. :eyes:

[RossMcLochNess]

10. Voted Other

Judging by my roomie, getting drunk with me is somewhat more fun :toast:

[goobergunch]

11. So Teachers, the message is: DON'T ASSIGN HOMEWORK!

Signed: A Junior in High School.

[ulysses]

12. other work still gets graded.

Short of drilling holes in your dear little heads...

hey, wait a minute...

;-)

[IronLionZion]

13. Hiring a former A student as a grader

That's what my professors do at RIT. They can grade the redundant stuff like homework, quizzes, and anything with discrete answers. You grade the complicated stuff like papers and essays.

[comradebillyboy]

14. having students scrub desks or pick up the room

for being late or other classroom rule violations.

[utopian]

15. A Frontal Lobotomy

Then again, reading some of these essays is doing the job.

[Lisa]

16. at least in a Bush speech, I can be rude about correcting him!

Can't do that with students, even if they deserve it...

A guy was in my office today, asking me to "look over" his paper so he could edit it. I noted that I couldn't actualy pre-mark his work (because I hadn't offered to do the same thing for the other students, and it would be unfair if I just did it for him) -- but I offered to give him some general hints. First I suggested that if he did some spell-checking, added an intro and conclusion, numbered the pages, and settled on one referencing system, it would be a relatively easy way to get a whole bunch of extra marks. He got upset and said, "you haven't even read the content, you're all hung up on the technical details".

When I pointed out that he kept repeating the same two sources over and over, and didn't have any conclusions of his own but was just using another author's almost verbatim, he accused me of not giving him "specific tips that would help my writing". I gave him one of my handouts on writing research reports, which has been available outside my office since September -- he told me that it would be my fault if he didn't do well, since I had been deliberately withholding this information from him.


Sigh. I need a drink.

[put out]

17. I would prefer a severe scolding. Very bad, very bad.

Many times I give credit for students' efforts to do my assignments. They (the homework assignments) are touchy-feely and not received well by some parents.

[GalleryGod]

19. More Polls By YOU!: D+

and 50 pps. extra READING:argh:

[onebigbadwulf]

20. Drinking self into an incoherrent stupor

[Iverson]

21. doing the laundry

If the essays are bad, doing the laundry is more fun.
If the essays are good, then laundry can wait.

[salin]

22. salin's most enjoyable grading experience...

four day blackout -couldn't stay at home... first night slept on a couch in the office (on campus)... second night at friends' house (newly married couple... didn't want to infringe)... third night (now on little sleep) - at another friend's... had to finish a major paper - and grade papers - and exams... While working another job. Had to work REAL hard not to let the fatigue, bad mood, and resentment at the power company from having any impact upon the way I graded those papers and exams.