When adopting workshop-style teaching and learning, you need a clear plan for how to keep students accountable without drowning in papers to grade. Many teachers ask how I manage grading the work my students complete during M.A.T.H. Workshop each day, and still find time to plan for workshop the following day…
No matter how much formative assessment you did, how much feedback you gave early, how aligned or focused your rubric is… you still have to grade it…
My two Civics classes were plugging away, and after the first two weeks, I decided I had better collect the notebooks and check them, so I grabbed my grade sheets for those classes and sat down one Sunday afternoon… six hours later, I was able to leave the school. I knew something had to change…