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Grades should never be a punishment.
Watch out for the red flags of a gradebook that shows compliance instead of learning!
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Watch out for the red flags of a gradebook that shows compliance instead of learning!
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#sblchat
Here are a few red flags
🚩 Taking off points for no names!
🚩 Taking off points for late work!
🚩 Grades associated with behavior (good or bad)!
🚩 Completion/Participation grades!
🚩 Taking off points for no names!
🚩 Taking off points for late work!
🚩 Grades associated with behavior (good or bad)!
🚩 Completion/Participation grades!
Grades should reflect learning. Outside factors should not be included.
For some reason this is a hot topic and tends to ruffle a few feathers, especially late work.
BUT this is not a new discussion. Read some of the "old" articles below.
For some reason this is a hot topic and tends to ruffle a few feathers, especially late work.
BUT this is not a new discussion. Read some of the "old" articles below.
The California Association of Teachers of English (CATE) passed a resolution in 2020 about equitable grading.
I think it's commendable, and I'd like more people to know about it.
The following is that resolution in its entirety.
#edchat @CATE_California #sblchat @JoeCFeldman
I think it's commendable, and I'd like more people to know about it.
The following is that resolution in its entirety.
#edchat @CATE_California #sblchat @JoeCFeldman
BACKGROUND: Grading is a difficult and personal matter for educators to discuss because rather than using grades to reflect mastery only, educators have become accustomed to incorporating the participation and effort of students (a.k.a. socio-emotional skills, currently ...
...recognized as soft skills), and to averaging grades throughout a semester. These practices can often fail to accurately reflect a student’s learned knowledge and skills. Recent research, such as Grading for Equity (Feldman), What We Know about Grading (Guskey & Brookhart), ...
Standards-Based Learning in 10 Tweets: A tiny primer that completely oversimplifies a complex (& difficult) shift in teaching & learning. @rickwormeli2 @danfrench @mctownsley @tguskey @leeannjung @MastTranscript @GOAlearning @allison_zmuda @VTEducation @kenoc7 #sblchat #edchat
1. Understand Why: read everything you can re: the brain (Zull, Jensen, Armstrong, Tate), motivation & change (Pink, Heath Bros, Wagner, Fullan), learning & teaching (Tomlinson, Zmuda, Wormeli, Guskey, Jung, O'Connor, Y Jackson). So many more (reply w/ your additions).
2. Understand What: At its core, SBL is about setting clear learning destinations, determining where Ss are in relation to the destinations, and doing everything we can to help Ss reach or go beyond. SBG is communicating where Ss are in relation to the destinations. That's it.
