Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Co-Teacher's grading You a high school English teacher and have a co-teacher in two of your four classes. The co-teacher offers to grade the essays for both the regular and special education students in both classes so you can grade your other two classes. It's about a week later before you get the essays back and are able to record the grades and return them to students. While looking over them you notice your co-teacher was very lenient on the students and did not use the rubric that had been created. What is worse is that your students in the classes that are not co-taught are upset that their grades are so horrible in comparison--the students have obviously been talking to each other. How should you handle this situation with your co-teacher? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I think it would helpful to both teachers if they first read through and analyzed the rubric. When both teachers share the same understanding of the expectations, they will be more on the same page. It would also be helpful for the co-teacher if the regular-ed teacher shared student work samples for each component of the rubric, so the co-teacher has a visual of what is expected from students. Then, the two teachers could grade the same essay together, share their feedback, and discuss the similarities and differences. Of course finally, the teachers should decide together what they are looking for and how they will grade from then on out.