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teach students to grade
By jessica

I teach third grade and grading papers can eat up your time. I seriously suggest that you spend ample time at the beginning of the year teaching students procedures for grading their own or a peers paper. This will save
you hours, days, weeks, months. Granted I do not have students grade everything. I always grade tests and assesment of objectives.
This is my rule of thumb. I take 10 grades on every objective in every subject every quarter. This gives me a nice amount for the mid-term and quarter grade.
As for the tecnique for grading that really is personal. You are the teacher you get to

rule over how much the question or assignment is worth. I assign most things 1 point however if there are only 5 questions on the paper I am not going to record a score of 5 points so I may make each question worth double. I record points earned out of points possible in the grade book and only figure percentages at mid-term and grade card time. Other teachers record the percentage that each child received. It is really up to you. However, I agree with the previous poster who said that you want to have a full grade book in case a parent asks why their child is failing.

One last thing don't forget you can always give participation points if the skill is something that you do together or you can test them orally and take a score. Hope this helps to ease the grading burden.

Jessica/3/MO