Monday, September 17, 2007
I hate red pens!
I can really relate to the vivid description of how it feels to get a paper back and you can no longer even see the ink on it any more. Instead, there are circles with lines extending from them to criticisms that are not even readable. ES. 395-say no more. It really does not help students, but instead is an over kill on the feedback. I also think it is funny that english teachers constantly complain about all of the homework and papers that need correcting, when they actually need to be cutting back on the time they spend releasing the fury of the red pen. Feedback on papers can be very helpful, as long as it is less intensive and not pointing out only the errors that have been made. Writing positive remarks on students' papers can do them just as much good as a correction could.
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Would it make a difference if the teacher sat down with the student in a non-threatening manner and helped them correct the various errors? Of course explaining them one by one, in depth, stressing that the student was capable?
Your right Ashley, I feel frustrated and my self esteem lowered when i get a paper back and it looks like a civil war battlefield. I always liked when teachers wrote comments that really mattered and gave me ideas on how to make it sound better. I believe that that should be the focus.
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