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I’ve described in other posts that the
students at my school each study an individual topic, called units of
study. Activities within the units
include creative writing like fiction and poetry, along with communication of
questions answered through research and multiple kinds of reporting. Sometimes the “answers” are
three-dimensional projects and numerous other kinds of responses. Students also create magazines, newspapers
and pamphlet for topics, along with the expected basic reports.
The teachers with whom I work and I have
spent time talking about the challenges of evaluating the “answers” students
turn in. There are a number of ways to
do this, but one that is a critical question for the teachers is how to save time because one on one
conferences about everything is simply not possible. Particularly in the upper age groups, there
are so many products for teachers to evaluate.
One approach that helped me both teach and save time is the way I comment
on the products, and keep track of them.