Regulations on checking notebooks.

1. General Provisions.

1.1 This Regulation has been developed in accordance with the Uniform Requirements for Oral and Written Speech of Students and is designed to regulate issues related to checking notebooks.

1.2. These Regulations are agreed with the methodological council of the school, which has the right to make changes and additions to it.

1.3. A notebook is a mandatory attribute of a student's education; it is maintained by each student in all subjects of the curriculum.

1.4Checking notebooks is paid for teachers of primary school, Russian language and literature, mathematics, foreign language.

2. Tasks for checking notebooks:

Fulfillment by the teacher of the norms of checking notebooks.

Students doing homework.

Compliance with a single spelling regime.

The correctness of maintaining notebooks for tests and their safety during the year.

The correctness of the signature of notebooks.

Correspondence of the amount of class and homework.

3. The procedure for checking notebooks.

3.1 Primary classes.

All notebooks are checked daily.

Statements and essays are returned no later than two days later.

Types of errors are placed in the margins of the notebook (/ - spelling error; v - punctuation error).

The volume of written work in the Russian language (for a lesson, write as many words in a notebook as provided by the program on reading technique).

3.2. Russian language and literature.

Russian language workbooks are checked in grades 5 and 6 (first half of the year), each work, in grades 6 (second half), 7 - 9 grades - the most significant work, but always once a week, grades 10 - 11 once a a month, for poorly performing students it is checked twice a week.

Literature workbooks are checked in grades 5-9 at least twice a month, grades 10-11 - at least once a month.

Exams are returned to the next lesson.

Presentations and essays are returned in a week in grades 5-9, after 10 days in grades 10-11.

The error is underlined and corrected by the teacher.

After each checked work, work on the errors is carried out.

Grades for tests are put in the journal, for independent work - at the discretion of the teacher.

The volume of written work in the Russian language (for a lesson, write as many words in a notebook as provided by the program on reading technique).

The amount of homework is equal to 1/3 of the amount of class work.

3.3 Foreign language.

Workbooks are checked: in grades 5 and 6 each work, in grades 7-9 - once a week, grades 10-11 once a month, for poorly performing students it is checked twice a week.

Exams are returned to the next lesson.

Types of errors are placed on the margins of the notebook (/ - spelling error; v - punctuation error, L - logical. F - actual, R - speech, speech errors are underlined by a wavy line), GR - grammatical).

The error is underlined and corrected by the teacher.

After each checked work, work on the errors is carried out.

The scope of work performed must comply with program requirements.

Grades for tests are put in the journal, for independent work - at the discretion of the teacher.

The amount of homework is equal to 1/3 of the amount of class work.

3.4 Mathematics.

Workbooks are checked in 5th and 6th (first half of the year) classes daily, each work, in 6th (second half of the year), 7th - 9th grades - the most significant works, but always once a week, 10th - 11th grades - the most significant works, but it is obligatory twice a month for all students, for poorly performing students it is checked twice a week.

Exams are returned to the next lesson.

An error is underlined, a rough one - by two, a non-rough one - by one, a defect - by wavy lines, work is being done on the errors.

Exams are returned to the next lesson.

Grades for tests are put in the journal, for independent work - at the discretion of the teacher.

The amount of homework is equal to 1/3 of the amount of class work.

3.5 Physics, chemistry, biology informatics.

Workbooks in grades 5-11 are necessarily checked twice a month, the most significant work is checked for all students, for weak students it is checked once a week.

The error is underlined, work on the errors is in progress.

Control, practical and laboratory work is returned to the next lesson.

Grades for control, laboratory and practical work are posted in the journal, for independent work - at the discretion of the teacher.

The amount of homework is equal to 1/3 of the amount of class work.

3.6. History, social science, geography.

 Workbooks in grades 5-11 are necessarily checked twice a quarter, the most significant work is checked for all students, for weak students every work is checked.

 The error is underlined, the speech error is underlined by a wavy line, work is being done on the errors.

 Grades for tests are put in the journal, for independent work - at the discretion of the teacher.

4. Payment for checking notebooks

4.1 Checking notebooks must be paid to teachers:

Primary classes - 10% of the number of hours of Russian language and mathematics;

For teachers of Russian language and literature - 15% of hours of Russian language in grades 5-11 and 15% of hours of literature in grades 8-11

Mathematics teachers - 10% of the number of hours;

According to the formula x = (% of hours / (number of classes * 25 people) * (number of students trained)

Foreign language teachers - 10% of the number of hours according to the formula: According to the formula x = (% of hours / (number of classes * 15 people) * (number of students trained)

4.2 The rest of the subject subjects are paid in the presence of the institution's wage fund.

4.3. Control over the checking of notebooks is carried out by the Deputy Director for OIA once a month.

4.4 Payment can be charged at 50% if the verification was not complete and at 100%. If the notebooks were not checked at all.

First from the series "Non-Fictional Stories".

A scandal was brewing in the teacher's room. According to the work plan of the school, the day before, they checked, pardon the tautology, “the state of checking notebooks” in some classes there. It turned out that Marya Ivanovna's workbooks for the whole last week had not been checked, Tatyana Lvovna's only checked classwork, or maybe only homework - that's not the point. And Lyubov Davydovna - oh my God! - misses errors.
The head teacher announced reprimands. Teachers are offended, someone is already writing a statement, someone is sobbing bitterly.
An outsider simply cannot understand this. And this is where the husband of one of the teachers comes into play: “Are you so upset because of this? How much are you paid for them? Ah, three hundred a month? Well, of course, it's worth the sobs and the nerves. The price of one of your checks is twenty-five kopecks. And most importantly - check do not check, but the red color in them does not become less. Sisyphean labor. He put a colored piece of paper on the table and ordered to get ready for a visit. My wife is hysterical: I have not yet checked three stacks of workers and two control ones. But a doubt arose in my soul: is it really twenty-five kopecks? The husband sat down at the calculator: “We are not taking you, but the average teacher, who has only three classes, this is about a hundred students, one hundred students - one hundred notebooks. Total three rubles per month per student. His notebooks should be checked at least three times a week. We divide three mythical rubles into 12 checks. That's right: twenty-five. This is a teacher with three classes. You will have less. So, are we going to visit?"
Everyone can come up with the end of this story for themselves.

How can it be anyway? Notebooks cannot be checked. Every linguist knows this. But it is simply physically impossible to check all the works. Overload from the lessons themselves and from preparing for them can still be explained somehow. But checking notebooks often leads to a nervous breakdown.

In explaining to novice teachers the meaning of this work, I always refer to Letters to Kristina, written on behalf of an experienced teacher, Margaret Metzger, to a teacher training graduate. (They were published in the First of September newspaper in issues 83–88, 1996.) Recalling herself in her youth, Margaret says:

“Day and night, I checked the work of 140 students. This was learned by a very experienced teacher. “You don't have to kill your life for this job,” he said, and looked at the new, still sparkling wedding ring on my hand. “I bet you don't have much time for your husband. When was the last time you went for a walk or went to the movies together?.. Come next week and I'll show you how to check the work quickly. And he kept his word. He gave me the most important advice: when checking notebooks, do not solve all the problems at once, but each time you need to take on only one problem. Each time check in notebooks one thing.

I don’t know how the Methodists would have looked at these tips, but the “Letters to Christina” helped me a lot. And above all, by the fact that they taught me to think, to look for their own paths in the methodology.

Of course, the skeptical reader will immediately object: what other “own ways” can there be in such a routine work as daily checking notebooks? And yet every linguist here has his own finds, his own useful trifles.

Experienced teachers advise:

Anything that can be tested in a class must be tested in a class. A variety of methods are suitable for this: examples of the correct execution of tasks on the board or key cards on the desks, spelling pronunciation, instant verification of what was written using signal cards, punched cards.

The notebook must be returned to the student no later than the next day, since only in this case fast feedback is established. No one needs an essay or a control given in a week or even two. To an even greater extent, this applies to workbooks.

It is necessary to start any next work by correcting the mistakes already made. Otherwise, the noble work of checking notebooks will indeed turn into the work of Sisyphus.

Maybe you should heed these tips? It's not that they're not feasible.
From myself I will add a few more rules and techniques.

We must try to turn checking notebooks into ... ... pleasure.“What did they write there today? What made you happy? Are there many mistakes? Has the lesson been in vain? Did you understand the topic? - I ask myself these and other questions, looking at a stack of notebooks.
This approach usually gives positive results. In the most ordinary notebooks, you can often find not only a mountain of errors, but also many small discoveries, because a notebook, unlike a teacher's abstract, is a photograph of a student's activity. It will help to correct the next lesson, to see their miscalculations and mistakes.
Checking notebooks should not be treated as some kind of sacred matter, which should take all the strength and time of the teacher. I made it a rule for myself: spend no more than a minute on one notebook, then the whole pack can be checked in just half an hour.

How it's done?

We take a notebook. So, we check the vocabulary dictation, even if only two or three lines are written, and we will definitely put a mark. (Recall one of the rules of "Letters to Christina": each time check something in the notebooks.) Exercises from the textbook. We read diagonally. The analyzes were all checked in the lesson, there is nothing to study them again so thoroughly, this is not an investigative examination. But we will check this without fail - the final dictation on the topic - and again we will put an assessment (only not a deuce, better the devil or somehow express our disapproval). Total two or three grades for one cool work. The student is not neglected. He knows: everything he did in the lesson will be checked, noticed, appreciated. The teacher sees all the gaps in the knowledge of the student.

Checking notebooks is manual work, both literally and figuratively manual. So far, no technology has been invented that can replace the hard labor of a teacher in this matter. But there is one way to make it much easier. it self test path.

Many philologists use self-examination to one degree or another. But it is to one degree or another - from case to case. Meanwhile, self-examination and self-control can become real assistants to the teacher.

I work in the fifth grade according to the textbook by G.G. Granik, S.M. Bondarenko, L.A. End 1 . It is noteworthy that for all exercises it has answers. Today you will not surprise anyone with the answers in modern textbooks. However, this methodological discovery - I’m not even afraid to say, a discovery - was first introduced into the textbooks of the Russian language and literature by psychologists G.G. Granik, S.M. Bondarenko, L.A. End (see their books "Secrets of Spelling", "Speech, Language and Secrets of Punctuation", etc.). It is in the answers to all (!) tasks and questions that the new textbook is fundamentally different from all others.

What is the purpose of the responses? - usually asked by everyone who encounters a textbook for the first time, and often parents are among them. “After all, the child will simply write everything off.” And they glue, stain the pages with answers, hide them from the student. But the keys in the textbook are given for a reason. They are needed for self-control and self-testing of knowledge, allow the student to work calmly, not be afraid that you can make a mistake, and also allow everyone to work at their own pace: “turtles” do not rush, and “doe” run as it is characteristic of their nature. Children who successfully completed the task skip the same type of exercises, moving to the next level - the green light turns on for them, the weak and intellectually passive continue training - the red light is still on for them.

This is how self-control is organized in our textbook and in our lessons. Some of the teacher's work is done by the students themselves. And now it takes me much less time to check notebooks than before. I just look through my homework, along the way for myself, marking those who wrote off "exactly as in the answer." (The experiment showed that after some time, intellectually passive children also stop cheating, moving to the level of intellectually active ones, so let them cheat for now.)

The question of self-control has taken us far away from the subject of discussion - checking notebooks. In fact, these questions are interrelated. And the point, of course, is not only to relieve teachers. Constant self-control includes attention and helps to cultivate such important personality traits as independence and responsibility. All my students who study from our textbook know this.

But what about those for whom the textbook with answers-keys has not yet become a common thing? Look back and ask yourself the question: “Am I spending too much effort on checking notebooks? Shouldn’t this matter be simplified a little so that there is time left for going to the cinema, and for walks with her husband, and, finally, for creativity? After all, routine work most of all kills that ability in a person, which is called creativity.

1 Granik G.G., Bondarenko S.M., Kontsevaya L.A.. Russian language: Textbook for the 5th grade: At 2 pm M., 2001. See also my review of this textbook in No. 14/2002.

1.2. Types of written work of students

Final control work is carried out:

• after studying the most significant topics of the program;
• at the end of the academic quarter, semester.

On one working day, only one written final control work should be given in the class, and no more than two during the week. When planning tests in each class, it is necessary to provide for their even distribution throughout the quarter, avoiding the accumulation of written tests by the end of the quarter, half year.

1.3. Number of final examinations

Items Type of work	by class
Russian language
dictations
statements
essays
Literature
cool essays
home compositions

Class	Vocabulary dictation	Control dictation	Statement (detailed)	Volume of student essay
				0.5 - 1 page
				1 - 1.5 pages
				1.5 - 2 pages
	up to 50 words
	up to 50 words

When counting words in the text of the control dictation, both independent and auxiliary words are taken into account.

If the control dictation is accompanied by an additional task, then the text is taken in the amount indicated by the first digit of the standard for this class.

The number of spelling and punctograms to be checked in the texts of control dictations should not exceed:

Class	V
Number of spellings
Number of punctograms

The texts of control dictations in the Russian language can only include those newly studied spellings that have been sufficiently fixed (at least in two or three previous lessons).

Words with unchecked and difficult to check spelling, the spelling of which the students were specially trained, in the dictation should be no more than five in grade V, seven in grades VI and VII, ten in grades VIII and IX.

Until the end of the first quarter (and in the fifth grade - until the end of the first half of the year), the amount of text recommended for the previous grade is preserved.

The volume of essays in literature, regardless of the source and place of work:

The volume of a class essay on literature also depends on the time allotted for the work.

You can not reduce the mark for the lack of an introduction, epigraph and plan, if this did not affect the quality of the essay.

4. The procedure for checking written work by teachers.

4.1. Notebooks of students in which teaching classroom and homework is performed are checked:

I.In Russian:

• in the 5th grade and in the first half of the 6th grade - after each lesson for all students;
• in the 2nd half of the year in the 6th grade and in the 7th - 9th grades - after each lesson only for weak students, and for strong ones - not all the work, but only the most significant in their importance, but in such a way that once a week the notebooks of all students are checked ;
• in grades X - XI - after each lesson, weak students, and the rest, do not check all the work, but the most significant in their importance, but in such a way that the teacher checks the notebooks of all students 2 times a month;

II. on literature:

in grades VI - IX - at least 2 times a month, and in grades X - XI - at least once a month.

4.2. Presentations and essays on the Russian language and literature, as well as all types of examinations in subjects, are checked for all students.

4.3. Checking tests by teachers is carried out in the following terms:

• control dictations in grades I - IX are checked and returned to students for the next lesson;
• presentations and essays in grades V - VIII - in a week;
• essays in grades IX-XI are checked for no more than 10 days.

4.4. In the work being checked, the teacher notes and corrects the mistakes made, guided by the following:

- when checking presentations and essays in grades V - XI (both control and training), not only spelling and punctuation errors are noted (and, if necessary, corrected), but also factual, logical, speech (speech errors are underlined by a wavy line) and grammatical; in the margins of notebooks, the teacher indicates factual errors with a sign F , logical - sign L , speech - sign R , grammatical - sign G , spelling errors - familiar I , punctuation - sign V ;

(*Note: It is impossible to reduce the mark for the absence of an introduction, epigraph and plan, if this did not affect the quality of the literary essay.

Any essay on literature is evaluated with two marks: the first is for content and speech, the second is for literacy. In grades V-XI, the assessment for content and speech refers to literature, the second assessment - to the Russian language.)

• when checking notebooks and tests of students in grades V-XI in the Russian language, the teacher only emphasizes and notes in the margins the mistake made, which the student himself corrects;
• underlining and correcting errors is done by the teacher only with red paste (red ink, red pencil);
• after checking the dictation, presentation or essay, the teacher counts and writes down the number of errors by type, in dictations the number of spelling (numerator) and punctuation (denominator) errors is indicated in fractions. The presentations and essays indicate, in addition, the number of factual, logical, speech and grammatical errors;
• after counting the errors in the prescribed manner, the assessment of the work is set.

4.5. All tests are necessarily evaluated by the teacher with the marks entered in the class journal.

Self-study written work is also evaluated. Grades in the journal for these works can be set at the discretion of the teacher.

Class and home written works in the Russian language in the 5th grade - the 1st half of the 6th grade are evaluated; grades in the journal can be set for the most significant work at the discretion of the teacher. In grades VI (starting from the second half of the year) - XI grades, all checked works are evaluated, but grades are given in the journal at the discretion of the teacher.

When evaluating the written work of students, teachers are guided by the relevant standards for assessing the knowledge, skills and abilities of students.

4.6. After checking written work, students are given the task of correcting mistakes or performing exercises that prevent the repetition of similar mistakes.

Work on mistakes, as a rule, is carried out in the same notebooks in which the corresponding written work was performed.

4.7. Evaluation of educational work.

Educational work (various exercises, including dictations of a non-control nature) are evaluated more strictly than control work.

When evaluating training work, the following are taken into account:

1. degree of independence;
2. stage of learning;
3. workload;
4. clarity, accuracy, calligraphic correctness of writing.

5 . Derivation of final grades

The final mark should not be derived mechanically, as an arithmetic mean of the previous marks. The decisive factor in determining it should be considered the actual preparation of the student in all respects by the time the mark is taken. However, in order to encourage students to take their studies seriously throughout the school year, the results of current academic performance must be taken into account when deriving final grades.

When deriving the final grade, priority is given to grades that reflect the degree of proficiency in skills (spelling, punctuation, speech). Therefore, the final mark for literacy cannot be positive if, during a quarter (year), most of the control dictations, essays, presentations for spelling, punctuation, and language literacy were rated with a score of "2" or "1".

In the senior grades, both grades for writing, which characterize students' knowledge of literature and their literacy, are set as a fraction in the class magazine on the literature pages.