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Classroom delivery · Level Advanced · Classroom Grading Feedback
Grading: reasoning before answers
Too much homework to grade properly.
Prompt
Three things in class: get them doing, surface misunderstanding, make feedback specific. Being eloquent is not the goal.
Task: Too much homework to grade properly.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- volume and grading time
- criteria
- common errors
- individual feedback needed
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- group by error type and address each once
- one targeted note per group
- one key line per person
- open the next session with the typical error
[Process]
1. Read the room before following the plan
2. Surface misunderstanding with questions
3. Feedback on behaviour and next step, never on the person
4. Separate tasks by level
5. Leave two minutes for their recap
[Output]
Reading the room, questions, feedback, tiers, close.
[Do not]
- Never embarrass anyone
- Never 'this is so simple'
- Do not skip practice to keep pace
- 'Any questions' is not interactionWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- volume and grading time
- criteria
- common errors
- individual feedback needed
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- group by error type and address each once
- one targeted note per group
- one key line per person
- open the next session with the typical error