While some of the Korean students I have taught have laughed at these “old-fashioned” beliefs, others, and their parents, have been shocked that any teacher was ever allowed to use a red pen. In some Asian cultures writing someone’s name in red pen is seen as bad luck, with Korean names traditionally only written in red when someone is dead (Neff). Maybe power too – why should the teacher’s writing be the first thing that a student notices when they open their book? Maybe when teachers started using red pens, it didn’t have the all of the negative connotations that it has now but red has always been associated with stress, danger and blood. That’s what my books used to look like when I was at school, and sometimes it takes a real effort to do things differently to the way they used to be done to you. Some people think that seeing all that red ink can harm a student’s self-esteem, especially if the marking is done in the old fashioned way, with a sprinkling of ticks and lots of crosses, and maybe “See me!” scrawled at the bottom of the page. “…a sprinkling of ticks and lots of crosses, and maybe “See me!” scrawled at the bottom of the page. I’ve tried to stop before, for several reasons. At the time they can’t have known that it might be doing any harm. Some said that they did it so that the teacher’s comments were easy to see on a page of student’s writing, with students writing in blue or black.
#Veerbal no red ink free
They didn’t seem to know why either! “…I’ve been red pen free for fourteen weeks now….”Īpparently it started in the 1700s (Aoki) with clerks and accountants correcting ledgers using red ink in their quills, and then spread to teachers, back when teachers “corrected” too, rather than providing formative feedback, or feed-forward, like we do nowadays. I don’t know why I first did it – it was just what everyone else was doing. It started years ago, back when I first started teaching. My name is Roo Stenning, and I’ve been red pen free for fourteen weeks now… Thunk 20: My life without a red pen… by below:
Read more about post answers the 20th question (part 2) from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. In 2015, he was nominated as one of the '500 Most Influential People in Britain' by The Sunday Times as a result of. Morrison McGill founded in 2010, and today, he is one of the 'most followed educators'on social media in the world.
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