https://educationalrenaissance.com/2025/01/04/slow-productivity-in-school-part-1-the-problem-of-pseudo-productivity/ Promoting a Rebirth of Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Era Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:05:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://educationalrenaissance.com/2025/01/04/slow-productivity-in-school-part-1-the-problem-of-pseudo-productivity/#comment-9729 Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:05:05 +0000 https://educationalrenaissance.com/?p=4490#comment-9729 As a middle-school Humanities teacher, I am often driven to classroom pseudo-productivity by the grading system. As we near the end of the Quarter and I start to feel insecure about my quantity of “objective” grades, I will find myself throwing in a worksheet or pop quiz grade just to get the numbers in. The difficult work of assessing discussion, classroom participation, and writing assignments makes the siren song of easy to grade assignments so much more tempting.

]]> https://educationalrenaissance.com/2025/01/04/slow-productivity-in-school-part-1-the-problem-of-pseudo-productivity/#comment-9693 Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:29:07 +0000 https://educationalrenaissance.com/?p=4490#comment-9693 Since I was a special education teacher, I had more flexibility in my curriculum implementation. However, I was still criticized by other teachers for taking too long on a book with students, and criticized by administration for having standards for student work and behavior that were “too high”, even though students were meeting those expectations. The culture of the public school encourages mediocrity.

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