What report card format creates the least workload for teachers?
There is no simple answer to this question. Doing report cards is a significant workload issue for teachers. Part of the solution to the workload problem may be in the format of the report cards. However, if it were all there, teachers in some school or district would have come up with a format by now that was widely recognized as solving the workload problem. Part of the problem is the expectations teachers tend to put on themselves. Many teachers advocate for report card formats that require them to do more work than is required by ministry policy. The reasons for doing these extras may be philosophically sound, but the additional time and thought put into reporting as a result needs to be weighed against the time and thought teachers could put into planning for classroom instruction or providing descriptive feedback, rather than marks, on students work. Because report cards have formats and deadlines, there is a tendency for them to grow in importance out of proportion to their rela
