Domain 4: Rights and Responsibilities
10:30 a.m.- 11:30 a.m.

Elaboration:
On Fridays I have one hour during art to work on things. Generally during this time I organize, grade, or get ready for lessons later in the day. Today I spent most of my time grading and attempting to find missing work. This is one of the responsibilities that seems to take the most time. I spent half of recess trying to find children who still owed me late work.

Analysis:
Paperwork can seem to be one of the most overwhelming responsibilities of a teacher. Not only is it time consuming, but it is also difficult to collect all of the student work. I could probably spend an hour a day trying to find students and get work from them. I have been trying to come up with more effective ways of keeping track of missing work. Lately, I have taken to go through the homework and checking it off before I grade it. Then, I make a sticky note with the names of children who have not turned in their work. I keep extra papers of all homework assignments and make copies if they lose them. If it goes longer than a week, and I have talked with a parent, I will eventually give them a zero. While I don't think it is appropriate for children this age to have mass amounts of homework, it is important that they learn to be responsible. I must continue to think of ways to carry my end of the responsibility and still encourage them to take ownership of their own work.