Interactive Notebook Grading Solution
I’ve got a time-saving tip to avoid stacks and stacks of notebooks that need grading and feedback.
I’ve posted a lot about the 10 minute Output students do at the end of a lesson. While students are working independently to show their knowledge, I walk around to check for understanding. I look at what students have been writing, ask questions, and clear up misunderstandings.
When I need to grab a grade, I can just have my list of student names, walk around and assign a grade for that day or a previous day’s assignment. I don’t grade notebooks very often. Most of it is practice and I try not to assess practice. In order to meet the lovely grading quota, it happens sometimes. 🙂
Why I Like It
– I can provide immediate verbal feedback.
– Students have their notebooks open to the page I need.
– I can grade quickly while students are working.
– I don’t have stacks of notebooks to go through after school.
– I can provide feedback more often because it’s not such a detestable task.
Happy grading!
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9 thoughts on “Grade Interactive Notebooks in 10 Minutes (or less!)”
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So smart, as always! I always love reading about your notebook management 🙂 🙂
Great idea!! Thanks for sharing your tip!
I’m a big fan of “over the shoulder grading” to keep things manageable. Great tip!
I do something similar, I stamp each students ‘output’ with a different rubber stamp each time. They don’t get a stamp unless it is finished and correct, that way I can give them instant feedback as well. When I want to enter a notebook check grade, I just count the stamps and give them points for each one they have. Its fast and easy! Its also kind of funny how they get excited about which stamp it will be, and they actually get sad if I don’t stamp an assignment!
After 21 years of using a science notebook, I have found an easy way to grade notebooks. I have my 8th graders do a peer review check (easy to use checklist for completeness and neatness) and then I do a 1-2 min final check (look for accuracy and check their parent signature, etc). I no longer have to take notebooks home or stay after school to grade (used to do this my first 5 years of teaching)….what was I thinking?!?! 🙂
Yes! Whatever you do, just don’t haul all those notebooks home! 🙂
How do you collect the grades after?
I just make a note on a class list.