Teacher comes up with hilarious new way to mark homework
Teaching is a job that comes with a whole lot of responsibility. It’s a teacher’s role to impart wisdom and knowledge on a large group of young people, setting them up for life, and part of this role involves grading a lot of work, which can get pretty tiring pretty quickly.
So one high school Media Studies teacher has come up with a way to make marking a whole lot more fun — and she claims even her students are loving her idea, mirror. co.uk wrote.
The teacher, who goes by the name Ainee F on Twitter, shared several photos and videos on social media of stickers she had made to grade homework. Each sticker features a different meme. Her tweets reveal the ones she might use if a student has given a confusing answer and one that congratulates them on good work.
She said that she ‘loves’ grading with her new stickers, which she made online and printed out on sticky paper.
Ainee added: “These were really well received by my kids. Students who normally wouldn’t care actually asked if they could correct their tests for a better grade and had a good laugh especially because they always show me memes.”
But she was quick to clarify that her approach probably wouldn’t work on younger students.
“I just wanna clarify, I teach high school seniors. I would not do this with younger students. This is the culture in my class we’ve built and because of that, they loved it. My fellow teachers loved it too.
“I teach a media studies English class, we literally study/analyze the media and write! Social media, trends, news, politics, music, film... the meme stickers were definitely appropriate for my class.”
People praised the teacher for her creative idea and fellow teachers said they planned to do something similar in their own classes.
One person commented: “This is going to help students learn. They pay way too close attention to what’s going on in them phones to ignore meme stickers. Good stuff IMO.”
Another wrote: “This upcoming generation don’t know how lucky they are to have lit millennials as teachers lol.”
A third added: “You’re an amazing teacher!”