Following Directions

Ahhhh! The math tests are corrected, and now I take a break before I tackle the English papers. In my correcting, one thing made me chuckle. Before students handed in their revised tests, I told them to make corrections in a different color of pen or pencil or to put a box around their corrections and work so that I would easily find them. Well, one student took my directions to heart. She used a very bright orange marker for her corrections and then she proceeded to write at the top of each page - "Corrections are in orange". Now that's a person who knows how to follow directions! It kind of made me laugh because even though it was obvious where her corrections were, I really appreciated that. One thing I hate to do is spend extra time searching for what should be obvious!