Naive Natalie -- I understand that you'd "like to know how [you're] doing" in my class, and I think I've provided you with some pretty useful feedback, written and oral, on the preliminary stages of your assignments. But your "current grade in the class"? As you may have noticed, I gave your group an extension after you encountered some technical difficulties while completing your project. That means that you haven't yet completed a graded assignment. Where, exactly, do you think grades come from?
Mathsquatch just pulls out the old 100-sided die, gives it a roll and proclaims (with a straight face), "You've got a [Insert what the dice says here] percent in the class. Congratulations!" Then I tell them that that grade will "stand" until I actually grade something. Keeps them off my back for a few days.
ReplyDeleteMathsquatch out.
HEART Mathsquatch.
ReplyDeleteApparently no one had "the talk" with Naive Natalie. Everyone knows that grades come the bottom of a handle of tequila, and that's only after a 12-pack of Schlitz.
ReplyDeleteGood grades come from liking the student. Bad grades come from not liking the student. That's what students like Natalie tell me.
ReplyDeleteGood thing grades don't come from the same place babies come from, that would be embarrassing to have to explain that to her, at her age.
ReplyDeleteOMG, Mathsquach, I'm stealing that idea. I have a HUGE 100-sided die from my hubby's D&D days. It would be awesome.
ReplyDeleteI actually use a D12 or D20 to divide up my grading, so I'm not always doing things in any particular order. The class list is divided into chunks alphabetically, and then I roll the dice to "decide" what section/assignment/chunk-of-students to grade next.
ReplyDeleteI can literally tell students who ask when will I get to their work that I cannot predict it.
I am going to start having my students get their answer to that question from my newly acquired "Magic Cheezburger," now sitting in a prominent place on my desk.
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