Grades and Feedback

One of the things we are required to do with all work that is placed on bulletin boards is post feedback to the students (well, I know we really should be doing this on all work we assign, but the bulletin board one is a mandate ;) )  Since every board has a rubric, a task, and the standards, it would be presumed that the students know what they did or didn't do to earn the score posted.  But, they really don't.  So giving feedback became another layer to all of our assignments.

Now, I think that feedback is a WONDERFUL thing, just as much as the next guy, but actually providing written feedback on all papers that go on the board is quite time consuming.  If you know anything about me (and from this post you just might), you know that I practically wallpaper my room with student work.  So giving feedback on all of the papers would have me at school until the cows come home.  To avoid that, but still have some feedback on each paper I put up, I have created these little tools to help me.

Just GUESS where I made them  ;)

 Let me show you them in action.  The sticky notes are the ones I use the most.  They are great for writing projects because there is a section to score each of the major strands I will be looking for on a written essay or other paper.  Upon reading the final draft, I give each section a score, then an overall score on the entire piece, write a few recommendations/commendations and I am done.  I stick the sticky note on the back of the final (usually on the rough draft) and I am done. 

You can see it hangs off slightly.  This is so that when the final draft is over it, you can see the sticky hanging out just a teeny bit.

The sticker is for papers, such as a math or science sheet, that don't have very many "next steps", and really are more cut and dry.  Those just get stuck right on the page.

I use the stamp in the same way.  Though usually I use it on papers that are going directly in their portfolio.  I just like the look of the stickers more for bulletin boards.



I can not tell you how much easier life has been with them.  Since there is only a finite amount of space on each one, my commenting has become quick and to the point.  (instead of just writing on the paper itself, which I really don't like to do...what if I make a mistake and have to cross it out???  This takes the pressure off me ;) )  It also gives the students a bit of feedback, without having to write a novel.  Since for most of the work that is up on the bulletin board has been through conferencing and we have discussed it already, these little tools make my life so much easier, but still help me to meet the bulletin board requirement at my school.   And, they look really cute ;)

Do you have to put feedback on all of your displayed student work?  How do you do it?