December 3, 2022

Something I thought about:

After last week’s family emergency, I had to do a massive push to catch up on grading this week, and I was thinking about the spirit and purpose of grading. As always this comes back to the idea of mastery and growth — what is being evaluated? I try to find a balance between the two, and I use comments 1) to encourage students to think more deeply through their writing and 2) to demonstrate how to improve some specific issue(s) in their next composition. I end by listing 1-2 areas to develop so they don’t feel completely overwhelmed.

Something I did:

Caught up on grading. Hooray!
Finished the academic writing / corpus linguistics training program.
Applied and was accepted to an intensive CELTA program.
Worked on my dissertation and symposium talks and slides.
Dealt with more medical things with the child. Everything is fine — just follow up appointments.

Something I read: