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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!) Before allowing the teacher to help me, which by the way is awesome, I would make sure that we graded a few papers together, using the rubric in order to establish a baseline. I would make sure that we both understand that we have to follow the rubric to the letter. Grading essays is very subjective, so it is important to establish a fair and consistent baseline for grading. After the fact, which is when the case occurs, I would sit down with the co-teacher and have a conversation about how I think I graded harder than her. I would make it about me, not her, and make sure that she understands how much I appreciate her help. I would point out the discrepancy in grading for next time and explain to her that the students are noticing the difference as well. I would suggest revisiting the rubric together to clear up any differences in grading that we may have and then I would offer to re-grade those tests to make sure all students received fair grades. It's all about communication. |
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