Student Late Work: Teacher Concerns
Educators are grading a rush of late work, prompting conversations about student motivation, standards-based grading, and sustainability.
- “It takes me 2+x/5 hours (ish) to finish grades for a class with x students (constant term is setting up spreadsheets that do the right things, and then setting up tests to make sure they’re doing the right things, plus a last check at the end; the rest is the actual grading!)” –Professor in Virginia
- “The end of the year rush to show mastery. I know why I don’t deduct points for late – but (for real) this time of the year, I feel overworked and disconnected while other teachers (who reduce points for late work) are not. Big cleansing breaths. We can do this.” –Teacher in Kentucky
- “There’s a lot of assumptions here that kids care about and check their grades I’ll even print grade printouts and missing assignments and they aren’t motivated by grades (or anything else) anymore.” –English Language Arts Teacher
- “Pro tip for teachers who are super worried about all the late work you will have to grade if you accept missing work: Give fewer assignments and stop grading everything. That will be a win-win for both you and your students who struggle with work completion.” –Teacher in North Carolina
- “A student just send a rude email to me about grading make up work. Guess whose work just got moved to the bottom of the pile…” –Social Studies Teacher