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Grading other people's thinking while quietly judging your own teaching.
means The act of evaluating someone's written or submitted work and assigning a grade or score to it.
from From 'mark,' a trace or sign left on a surface — Old English 'mearc,' related to German 'Mark' (boundary) and ultimately to a root meaning edge or border. The sense drifted from physical marks (notches, signs scratched to record something) to the symbolic marks teachers leave — ticks, crosses, numbers, letters — each one a tiny boundary drawn between right and wrong, enough and not enough.
- red pen myth
- green or purple triggers less defensiveness, same corrections
- the pile
- grows heavier in your mind than on the desk
- feedback paradox
- most detailed comments go least read by students
- sunday ritual
- where weekends quietly go to die