William,
Great technique! The little bit of extra time this takes is probably outmatched three-fold in terms of student benefit, along with their appreciation.
Barry Westling
I have found that student like to know how they doing in the class. So I have printed out reports every Friday of the weeks progress. This helps them improve they scores the next time.
Shelby,
Weekly progress is awesome. For me, personalized meeting with student helps convey my interest in their success, along with individualized suggestions for improvement.
Barry Westling
Jeffery,
Yeah, some students will remain adrift without focused, directed, and informative advice, suggestions, and update of their status. In general, most every students wants to know and probably appreciates the information their instructor gives.
Barry Westling
Students want to be informed of their progress, or lack thereof. As their instructor it is my responsibility to be current and consistent with grading methods and mediums by which the students can be informed of their grades. Doing this will also allow me to further any help-needed students. After all, they are the ones investing in us to help get them to a better future.
It helps the students to keep them informed of their progress regularly. I give mine a weekly progress report that they sign and return to me. I circle any work owed and highlight recently graded work. (I have a small class, so this is easy to keep up with.) This way they know what is missing, and I learn quickly if I missed grading them on anything. The biggest benefit is that by keeping current on grading, I can easily see whether any student or group is struggling with the material, and I can quickly adapt my lesson plan to review the material or skills again.
