[etni] Re: Error correction - What is YOUR opinion of THIS?
- From: Francine Widerker <widerker@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "naomi.shema@xxxxxxxxx" <naomi.shema@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:46:59 +0300
What a simple and effective idea. Mark what is correct! I love it. For years I
have been using different colored pens to point out mistakes. This is so much
better.
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On 2 במאי 2013, at 15:21, naomi epstein <naomi.shema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The whole topic of error correction interests me a great deal. I'm curious
> to hear what other teachers think of a suggestion that was just made by a
> reader on my blog.
> After reading the post:
> "Is it an error not to correct"
> http://hartlelearning.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/is-it-an-error-not-to-correct/
> I commented on the post on my own blog: " Correcting Errors and Teacher
> Survivial - a comment
> http://visualisingideas.edublogs.org/2013/04/30/correcting-errors-and-teacher-survival-a-comment/
> Here's a comment I got from a teacher, Judy Dubois, who took the time to
> share her strategy. What do YOU think? Would it work with the five point
> students studying compostion writing?
>
> Please answer to the list.
>
> "I developed a correction system which worked for me when I was teaching
> English in a French lycée. First I explained to students that their first
> drafts would be graded by quantity not quality. that meant that if the
> assignment was to write 350 words, everyone who wrote 350 words got full
> marks. This removed a lot of the apprehension of “making mistakes” and
> their first efforts were generally more spontaneous and interesting. I
> collected their papers and went through them making NO comments, codes,
> etc., simply underlining in GREEN everything that was grammatically
> acceptable. I then returned their papers and gave them a week to write a
> second draft which would be graded for quality and count twice as much as
> the first. This allowed them to correct a lot of errors from the first
> draft and almost everyone was able to get a decent grade, which encouraged
> them. I found that I spent much less time on correction than I had before,
> and since the careless mistakes were eliminated, it helped me see which
> sturctures were giving them problems and needed to be targeted in class".
>
> Naomi Epstein
>
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