PLN #19

For my nineteenth PLN I read an article titled "Reflections" that I found on Mrs. Moritz's blog mainly talking about how when she hands back papers or assignments to her students instead of reading the content and comments she gave them to improve on they immediately flipped to their grade and then threw the paper away. She talks about why she thinks students do this and possible ways to improve on it.

My Comment:
Mrs. Moritz I think you made some very interesting points in your blog and I think most of the things you say are probably true. As a high school student myself, I can openly admit that I do indeed flip straight to the grade whenever I get a paper or assignment back. It’s not that I don’t care about the content and the teacher’s comments but to me the grade is much more important than the content. Even though looking at the content and what teachers have to say will most likely improve our writing, for some reason we seem not to care and kind of just assume that we’ll do better next time instead of sitting down, reading the comments and trying to improve our work. I can’t answer why it is most students do that, but a possible way to make them read the content you could offer points back or extra credit to kids if they re-write the paper making the corrections you pointed out for them. I can’t think of any other possible way to make students actually read the comments you give them. Another possibility would be to require students to come in and see you privately to talk about what they did wrong and reward them with ten points or so for doing that.