Outside-The-Box Ideas by Kelsey Didrikson https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj Share your best English teacher hack. en-us 2025-04-21 17:33:53 UTC 2025-05-01 16:45:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4ac.png https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433155231 Don't always grade everything. Have students do the work but not everything has to go in the gradebook.

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]]> 2025-05-01 16:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433155949 https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433158594 QTIP- quit taking it personally.

When I’m having especially frustrating times, I’ll carry a qtip in my pocket to remind me…

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]]> 2025-05-01 16:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433161479 https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433161526 I hide little ducks around the school. Students don’t know it’s me (at least they didn’t until this year) but they go crazy searching for them and who can find the most. 6-12 building.

]]> 2025-05-01 16:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433161526 https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433161649 I take the papers out of the box and put them under the box. Poof! They dissapear and no longer need grading!

]]> 2025-05-01 16:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433161649 https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433161696 Don’t take it personally.

]]> 2025-05-01 16:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433161696 MsLCline https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433161915 Give yourself a buffer day each month so you do not stress out if your plans fall apart and get off track.

]]> 2025-05-01 16:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433161915 https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433161941 I give note cards for kids to write out answers to thinking prompts. They have to have one side minimum filled out. Quick grading— less intimidating for kids to answer.

]]> 2025-05-01 16:13:55 UTC https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433161941 https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433162178 111 things about you. I have students create a list of 111 things about themselves. They spend the first week creating this. Then when I read the lists, I get to know them, I look for connections to their passions and interests, and I often get to learn about their families, beliefs, and fears.

]]> 2025-05-01 16:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433162178 https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433162557 The “students test teacher” test. Small groups get together and design questions on a text that class has read and then verbally test teacher. Groups earn xc points for any question teacher gets wrong. Kids love it and you secretly get them to show what they know about text!

]]> 2025-05-01 16:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433162557 https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433163895 Give specific feedback on a rough draft and on their rubric; for the final draft, have students score their own final draft on the rubric + explain the areas of growth -- you don't have to give extensive feedback on the final and you are only really looking at specific places.

]]> 2025-05-01 16:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433163895 https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433165591 After completing an essay unit— which takes a lot of time to correct—I do an independent work unit so I can grade more in class and not take so much work home.

]]> 2025-05-01 16:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433165591 https://padlet.com/warroadpublicschools/2sibymsiroo5kumj/wish/3433166616 I never take anything home to grade. That is the boundary I make for myself so when I'm home I'm present with my family.

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