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June 07, 2006
AP Reading - Day to Day
It's been an interesting, really interesting couple of days. The first full day of reading, I noticed two of my tablemates were reading at least one and a half folders to my one. I'm not usually competitive that way, but somehow this bugged me, so I determined to increase my speed without sacrificing the quality of my reading or my judgement. I must've done okay, cuz I didn't get any additional "you might want to look at" notes from my table leader.
It's hard, though, to go too fast. Every paper is a little bit different, even though there are some common (often superficial, often just wrong) themes in the responses. I find myself having all sorts of teacher zone-out moments - those times when I see a particular kind of problem in a student response, and think "how would I teach literature, and writing, in such a way to try and address this gap?" That for me might be the biggest reward for doing this: to learn how to be a better teacher by reading the writing of students who hope not to be in my class. More on that later.
Meanwhile, a brief view of the scenery here - an arrival day picture taken before I knew I wasn't staying there...
Posted by cageyer at June 7, 2006 07:00 AM