Speaker 1: Hey everyone. Welcome back to my channel. My name is Amanda Rose. Thank you so much for joining me and for getting ready to watch this video. I'm really excited. This will be my last video before the end of the year, so Happy New Year. And it's going to be a very simple one, a quick one. I'm talking to you guys about five tips to efficiently grade student work. With the new year coming around, I know I know everyone has New Year's resolutions, however, grading for me is always something that I'm trying to improve. I spend so much time grading, and throughout the years, these are just some things that I have learned to limit my grading time. And I will go through it with you guys. And so without wasting any more of your time, let's get into this five tips to officially grade a student. The first one, use exit slips. If you have been following my channel for any given amount of time, you know that I am constantly pushing exit slips. And the reason why is because they are so quick to grade. Now usually my exit slips can consist of the aims, so whatever overall question we had for that day, I'll have students answer the aim. Possibly have them answer the learning objective, or maybe this was the skill for today. If you told them how to write a thesis statement, then their exit slip is to write a thesis statement. Things could be summarize today's lesson in two sentences, summarize today's lesson in five sentences, write down two things that you learned today. The exit slip is directly connected to the lesson and it is a much easier way to get an overall view of how all the students did that day. And what I'll do is I'll grade those possibly out of like a one to five, depending on how rigorous the assignment was. And then I'll just separate them into three piles, students who got it, students who almost got it, and students who are completely lost. And this gives me a better idea of, okay, do I need to reteach this entire thing tomorrow? Do I need to just pull a group of kids on the side? Or for the ones who really are struggling, maybe I should pull them up during lunch and we can do a quick little one-on-one for this to make sure that they don't fall behind. Tip number two, when it comes to grading tests specifically, grade things section by section. So for example, most of my exams will have a multiple choice section, a short answer section, and then a short response. So I like to just do the first 10 short answers and then I'll flip over at least three to four different exams at once to that page and I'll be able to go. So if the answer is First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, 5th Amendment, 8th Amendment, then I'll be able to just go 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th, 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th, and go through all of them in that one section. I've noticed that I can get a lot more grading done when I do things section by section versus doing one exam at a time because my mind just can't hold all of that information at once where it's like, oh, and this was this, and this was this, and this was that. So almost like a robot or almost like a factory in a sense where you just do section by section. One, you make a lot less mistakes, and two, you just get larger portions of the exam done at once, and I'll usually just do the whole test like that. Obviously, if you have multiple choice, use a Scantron if your school has Scantron machines. I know that there's also a lot of online, or like a lot of apps that you can use to help grade multiple choice as well, but I would not grade those by hand because that will take forever. So definitely use technology when it comes to multiple choice, and when it comes to short responses or essays I like to grade things section by section. Tip number three, grade things based on a point system not a percentage. Now your school may not really allow this or maybe they can only do things based on percentages or based on points but I'll give you an example with a test. Instead of, if you're anything like me, instead of trying to count okay well this section will be worth 50% and then this section is this many questions dang it so now it's 31% and then this much is left and then you're just trying to add it all up to figure out what equals 100. I got this idea using a point system from a math teacher and it completely changed my life because sometimes I take long just to think about how all of these things add up to a hundred. Do not attack me in the comments it just it is what it is and hopefully there are other teachers that can relate so for a test what I'll do is part one is 25 multiple-choice questions each question is worth one point then part two I have short responses then I'll say oh well the short responses I want them to be worth more than the multiple choice so each one in here is worth two points and then let's say the essay I'm like okay now I want the essay worth five points so I'll add up all of those points together and let's say it equals 48. Well I know that if a student gets all 48 points then that means that they got a hundred. What I'll do is I'll add up all of the points and then I'll just divide that by the total number of points. So going with my example, hopefully I'm not confusing anyone, it is very simple math I promise. So let's say my total is out of 48 points and I have a student that scored 30. 30 total points. So I just take 30 divided by 48 which gives me 0.625 so in other words that student got 62 and a half so if you want to just double check you take that and you times it by a hundred 62 and a half and I'll round that up to 63 so it's a lot easier for me to do it by points then spending the time trying to worry about percentage I just add up points and then I get my percentage and it can work with any assignment because the problem is then you're finding ways to add questions so that you can get the hundred ways to take away questions so that you get the hundred percent with this it doesn't matter it'll work every single time it doesn't matter how many questions you have as long as you figure out the weight of each point for that section add it up see what the kids get out of that divided by the total number and you get your percentage tip number four use Use student aids. I was, in the beginning of my career, such a stickler about having anyone else grade my work. I think when you're a new teacher, you're really excited about grading everything. You've always dreamed about grading and using your colored pens and adding stickers everywhere. And then you realize, for me to grade all of these things on my own, it is very time consuming. So using student aids is a very, very great way to get a lot of your grading done. And students love grading work, and it also builds really great relationships with them because now they know that you trust them to carry on such a great responsibility. But it has to be a student that you trust, that you know that is responsible and won't cheat when it comes to the points. And in my school, the seniors need community service hours, and so it's really, really great to just grab two students and they can get community service hours for helping a teacher grade work. Tip number five don't grade everything. Okay in my school the students every time we give an assignment it is miss are you is this gonna be collected is this gonna be collected are you gonna grade this and I just say yes because I know that if I don't say yes more than likely they will not give a hundred percent or they won't do it so I just say yes I'm collecting it I'm collecting it and so every day I will collect five classes worth of work and it's like whoa what what am I gonna do with this and then do the same thing again tomorrow and the same thing and tomorrow and by the time you know it you have at least 400 things to grade impossible so you have to be the one that decides what assignments are the most important for me a lot of the times with my worksheets, I will scaffold questions. 1 to 10, 1 to 20, and I usually know that the questions towards the end of the worksheet are the ones that are much more difficult. So I will just go down to those questions and I'll grade those. The first one, if you give me the definition of a vocabulary word, good for you, you should know that. But if there's something that requires a lot more critical thinking, a lot more analysis, I want to check those questions and I will give credit based on those questions. So those are ways that I will get around grading everything. Other things when it comes to writing assignments, if students are writing an essay, maybe just for that essay you focus on the intro, focus on the conclusion, focus on how they integrate content, focus on how they use citation. Maybe you want to focus on a thesis statement. Pick things specifically in the assignment that you're looking for so that you don't have to go through every question or every part of the assignment. A bonus tip, I got this from a teacher who I currently work with and I thought it was genius so I want to share it with you guys. When she grades essays, she's an English teacher, when she grades essays she started noticing that she was giving the same kind of feedback. Oh you have to indent or your thesis statement is not strong enough or you didn't mention the examples in your introduction, whatever Whatever the case may be. And even that is time consuming, writing the same feedback over and over. So she created a generic feedback form that she prints out and instead of writing it over and over, she just prints out all of these generic feedback forms and she'll just check off the things that the students need to work on and she'll just staple it to their essay. And I thought that was such a great idea because, again, it limits how much time you take writing but you're still able to give the students feedback on the assignment that you asked them to do. So there's a little bonus tip right there that just came to my mind and I was like, oh, that's such a great idea. But that's pretty much it. Those are five easy tips. There's so many more. There's so many apps, so many things online using Google Forms instead of writing things out. But some schools just don't have access to technology like that. But either way, those are my five tips on how to efficiently grade student work with an extra little bonus tip. I hope that you guys enjoyed this video. As always, please make sure that you like, that you subscribe, that you click the notification bell, and I hope that you guys have a great and safe happy new year. I will see you in the next video.