World History
When I tell people that I grade exams their first reaction is to say that grading is the worst part of their job, so why would anyone want to go. Well 1) I am a much better teacher because of the work I have done as an AP grader in two different subjects. After all if I know how to grade an exam, then I know how to better prepare students for future essays. 2) The people I met give me both great friendships, but also colleagues near and far to exchange ideas and assignments. 3) You get to go to great places. This year I will be in Salt Lake City and even though, yes, you do work 8-5 (with lunch and AM/PM break) we did have time to go hiking one day, go to the Great Salt Lake, on another and see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir practice in their 20,000 person arena and usually we catch a baseball game. 4) I am so much more a proficient grader and can very accurately whip through lots of free response questions - which means I can assign more and better prepare my students (who this year wrote 12 for grades and another 3-4 for practice in my class).
Basically it works like this. Day 1 - fly to AP grading site Day 2 - learn the rubric. They give you all the answers and truthfully most of my AP students could grade given the training. By the end of the day you will be very accurately grading exams and giving them the identical grade to everyone at your table Day 3-7 - grade all day in 4 quadrants and yes it can get hard at times Day 8 - Finish the grading which means you only get about 50-75. Only once have I ever graded beyond noon on this day and then you get the rest of the day to do things like do real sightseeing. Day 9 Fly Home.
So if you are interested, here is the place to sign up.
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World History
Become an AP Grader
Basically it works like this. Day 1 - fly to AP grading site Day 2 - learn the rubric. They give you all the answers and truthfully most of my AP students could grade given the training. By the end of the day you will be very accurately grading exams and giving them the identical grade to everyone at your table Day 3-7 - grade all day in 4 quadrants and yes it can get hard at times Day 8 - Finish the grading which means you only get about 50-75. Only once have I ever graded beyond noon on this day and then you get the rest of the day to do things like do real sightseeing. Day 9 Fly Home.
So if you are interested, here is the place to sign up.
- Become An Ap Reader
This week I am in Salt Lake City grading AP Comparative exams. In the past I have also graded AP US History and AP US Government. Honestly the sound of grading a bunch of exams every day doesn't seem to excite lots of people, but every...
- Become An Ap Grader
I have been grading different AP exams for well over a decade and have found it one of the most rewarding experiences of my professional life. Yes it does get hard the fourth and fifth day of grading the same exam over and over (well some subjects...
- Ap Summer Institutes
The best summer institute I have ever attended starts on June 10th in Salt Lake City where I will be grading AP US Government exams, but I have gone to a number of great summer institutes (World, US, Comparative and US Government) over the years and always...
- Using Google Drive To Grade Assignments & Collaborate With Colleagues
Today two of the teachers in my department printed out essays that were turned in digitally and sheepishly said to me that they just could not grade them online. About five or six years ago I was with them, but I am not one to give in easily. I...
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My son, who is in second grade, loves his math game that he plays at school to perfect his adding, subtraction, multiplication and division. I like looking at him playing games at school or home because he is fully engaged and doesn't mind...