Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Culminating Performance Tasks = Hours of Grading With the implementation of the new Georgia Milestones Assessment, Copy County is doing away with multiple choice summative unit assessments and are replacing them with culminating performance tasks that are usually two parts. Unit One's culminating performance task involved writing a 3 paragraph reflection for part A, and part B required students to write an argumentative speech. How can Mrs. Teacher-by-day-mom-by-night grade 120 essays and watch 120 speeches without losing her mind?? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I completely understand! We have had to implement Writing Portfolios and I feel like I am constantly grading essays. My suggestion would be grade for specific items, instead of the overall paper. For example, if you have taught sentence structure and how to organize your paper then focus on grading those two items only. Whatever you teach in class have them implement that in their writing and grade them on that content so you don't burn yourself out by looking at every aspect of the paper. Grade what you can; when you can!                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: Thanks!! Will try! Rated On: October 19, 2014 9:59 pm Rated By: yMyTyq                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: i agree Making sure to grade on specific elements of writing can help to make it easier like suggested Rated On: October 21, 2014 7:18 am Rated By: Thomas Anderson