Grading grading grading grading
Dec. 7th, 2021 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterWhat do you suppose is the best cure for a grading hangover?
When I have to grade student writing, I have to spend a lot of mental energy trying to picture how a student is thinking about a topic, and then try to think about how to articulate where they're being ineffective at communicating whatever it is they want to communicate / are supposed to communicate. It. I can feel it at night when my brain shuts off and can no longer engage in this effort; fighting this is like trying to win a footrace in molasses, so I generally just stop, go to sleep, and then try to get up early to resume efforts as soon as I can.
For papers for the current course, I also meet for an hour one-on-one with each student to review the feedback I'm giving them and help them plan out a roadmap for revising their writing. This also requires considerable attention and cognitive effort, and is thus also draining.
I think that's why I fell asleep at 8 pm last night. But then I woke up at 3:30, my brain trying to think about all the other things I haven't been thinking about while I've been thinking about student writing.
In any case, I should be through the worst of this now. Hopefully. There's still plenty to do, just not so much draft-grading. I do still feel like I'm going to just fall on the couch at the end of this semester and sleep for a couple of days, except I'd really like to be doing other things and the spring semester always starts up way too soon.
So how would you cure a grading hangover?
When I have to grade student writing, I have to spend a lot of mental energy trying to picture how a student is thinking about a topic, and then try to think about how to articulate where they're being ineffective at communicating whatever it is they want to communicate / are supposed to communicate. It. I can feel it at night when my brain shuts off and can no longer engage in this effort; fighting this is like trying to win a footrace in molasses, so I generally just stop, go to sleep, and then try to get up early to resume efforts as soon as I can.
For papers for the current course, I also meet for an hour one-on-one with each student to review the feedback I'm giving them and help them plan out a roadmap for revising their writing. This also requires considerable attention and cognitive effort, and is thus also draining.
I think that's why I fell asleep at 8 pm last night. But then I woke up at 3:30, my brain trying to think about all the other things I haven't been thinking about while I've been thinking about student writing.
In any case, I should be through the worst of this now. Hopefully. There's still plenty to do, just not so much draft-grading. I do still feel like I'm going to just fall on the couch at the end of this semester and sleep for a couple of days, except I'd really like to be doing other things and the spring semester always starts up way too soon.
So how would you cure a grading hangover?
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Date: 2021-12-08 01:31 am (UTC)Chocolate. But I try to cure everything with chocolate. :)
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Date: 2021-12-08 03:42 pm (UTC)So, I'm not sure what works for me would work for you.
But I always find that going to see a movie in an actual theater resets all my buttons.