This is what we told the students we wanted. Anything else will be perceived as a bait and switch. Tell students what they have done well 2. The harder you have to work as a reader to supply what's not there, the weaker the paper. Always hand back the papers at the very end of class.
Nothing kills a class quicker than giving back papers.
And once they get them, they'll stop listening to whatever you're saying. Going over the criteria before you hand back the papers means you have a captive audience. If you have conferences withs students about their papers, the conference should not take more than ten minutes. Look at the descriptions of conferences on the grading guide for a sense of what should go on in a conference. We ask people to think, and we don't show them what thinking is.