An Impossible Task

My pile of papers constantly take a trip back and forth to work. Some of the papers are finally moved from the ones that vacation in my car and perhaps into my house to their cubbies where they will live for the remainder of the school year. While other papers will join the ever growing pile of papers.

Every 4.5 weeks, I tell myself I'll get more organized and add my grades to the Google Doc weekly so I don't have the task of putting the grades in the Google Doc at the end of the grading period. Instead of being manageable at the time I collect the papers, I make it into an impossible task.

Once I sit down and actually attempt to conquer this mountain of papers, I get overwhelmed. I know I need to get the task done because other people are relying on me getting done with these papers and getting the grades into my Google Doc so they can plug them into the progress reports.

Finally all of the papers are graded and put into the Google Docs. They are ready to be cut and pasted into the progress reports.

I'll say to myself once more that I'll be more on top of things this next grading period and then once again I face the impossible task of the growing pile of papers.



Just so you know, I do the resource room in our building. I service 40ish students. Some I see multiple times during the week while others I only see once a week. During this past grading period, I began to implement utilizing Google Classroom. Then I ran into an issue because I didn't know how to print the grades from Google classroom. Argh.

That has finally been figured out last week. This week is the final week of the quarter. It'll be easier to keep on top of things next quarter now that has been figured out. At least I hope it is easier.

I grade the papers. It's just getting those grades into my Google doc for the other teachers that I struggle with and I need to find an easier way to accomplish this task. I've used both Google doc and Google sheets in the past. I don't know which one is better.

Traci