Thank you for your email, and I understand your concerns about Mohinabonu’s grade in French 3. For a better grade, she needs to improve on each category of the grade descriptors that you will find attached. We do several activities in class, and with the homework assignments that she regularly does, she may get a better grade for the next quarters. On Wednesday, I talked to students about their grades, and each one has a copy of the grade descriptors assigned on Google Classroom to help them track their progress and find their grade. Mohinabonu needs to do some corrections on her project marked Not Proficient (NP). Also, she needs to improve on reading and comprehension for the paper 1. This quarter, we will continue to work on these different
Education is a long-term investment. We, as students, work hard to acquire knowledge and to hone our skills so that we may use them one day. The effort we put into a single assignment should be considered as both for that specific assignment and for our rounding as complete, educated individuals. And with this mindset, students should be motivated even more to put more effort and hard work into academics, with the goal of bettering themselves for the future and advancing their prospects as individuals. And with this hard work and effort will come progress, and this progress should be reflected in the grading—not necessarily on individual assignments, but on the student’s education as a
Mr. McClean, our network’s Director of Student Information Systems, provided key information about Miriam’s calculated grade. When we manually calculated her score with assigned weights to Classwork (50%), Homework (10%), Quizzes (25%), and Tests (15%) and without dropping her lowest score, her grade was a 63%. The formula that we used was:
what they have learned with their fellow classmates. Lastly reviewing the chart that we did
Furthermore, the author points out that grades are not improving because students and education are improving but rather because parents and students are demanding grades to be adjusted according to what they think it is needed not what it is deserved. “Students and parents are demanding -- and getting -- what they think of as their money's worth” (Staples, 216). Students are not receiving the grade they truly deserve based on their work but what the parents and the students themselves
Feather has had a great term three! She comes to class prepared and ready to learn. She has been completing her work ahead of other classmates and receives free time to read. It has been great to see Feather improve this term. Keep it up!
Alfie Kohn discussed multiple fabulous points in his article, “Degrading to De-Grading”. The author suggests more effective ways to assess students’ progress other than numerical or letter grades. Kohn goes into detail about why our current grading system is flawed. Grades can cause students to lose interest in learning which causes them to stop taking challenges. If students are not engaged and interested than they are not retaining the information they are being taught. The grading system can also cause students to develop unhealthy competition with one another for instance, “I got a better grade than you!”. Indeed, grades are a wonderful concept, but they tend to be more hurtful than helpful. In some cases, grades can have positive effects on students. For example, setting goals for various assignments, or receiving help where they are struggling. Though, there are alternatives that could make positive changes in the system.
Naja is slowly improving her grade; however, as I stated in the grade update, I provided students with many opportunities in class to remediate their grade. I informed them that I was updating grade and that we were closing out our unit so if they needed to complete any missing assignments they should get it done asap. One problem that I have noticed, is that Naja has not completed her vocabulary assignments which carry some weight.
As the weeks went on the student seemed to pick up on and begin to grasp the topics I worked with him on. Specifically the student improved on their identification of when to use the plural form and when to use the singular form.
Stated in the school improvement plan at the end of every section is a list of assessments for monitoring student progress and evaluating the effectiveness of
In order to assess pupil’s achievements the teacher will take the main lead in doing so and the learning support practitioner will take guidance from the teacher’s assessments in order to support the pupil’s progress. In order to have a clear vision of the students ability and how they are progressing, the class teacher will monitor and assess students achievements, conduct reports of the achievements found for the department; other staff including year learning co-ordinators; and for the parents, they will also have meetings to share examples of pupil’s progress and discuss why they
As a new immigrant, I took the accuplacer test and went straight to 111 English level. So, English 111 course became my first college English class. It seems like a great achievement for a French speaker. Nonetheless, this performance linked to significant challenges. Even though I am a fighter and an optimist, I was frightened about my academic achievement for this semester. The problems became bigger when I took my first practice test on sentence structure (fragments and run-ons) and got a D. I was frightened and felt that I will have to drop the class. However, I decided not to give up. I started working hard and had a V+ on the next test. This positive grade energized me until now. During this semester, I have much homework and practices which allow me to identify some strengths, weaknesses, and gave me lots of skills for my English 112 class and the future.
Historically, letter grades have served as a tool to rate educational intelligence. By looking at the progression of a student’s grades over time, people are able to determine whether or not the students are developing skills in certain areas. Using a one letter grade to determine progress has received many critiques as a common system used in America’s education. Critics claim letter grades cause students motivation and creativity to decrease because grades shift students focus from learning the material to obtaining a good grade.
Progress monitoring student’s achievements and progress throughout the year is very important and these two tools are great to use for reading progress monitoring in the younger grades. This activity has taught me how to best use each assessment to better my teaching as a classroom
At Stone Ridge, students are unable to check on their grades unless they ask permission of a teacher. Even then, teachers can refuse. How can students work to improve their grades, when they don’t know where they stand? Having a grade checking platform is important for students to know what they have done well, or poorly on. It can help students to ask about particular assignments, or what they can do to better improve their grades.
Teachers have always used grades to measure the amount a student has learned. This practice is becoming ineffective. Many students have a wide range of grades, which show that grades may not show what a student really knows. Therefore, the standard grading system should be replaced. Some reasons why grades should be replaced are bad grades can hinder a child’s performance, grades define who a student is in the classroom, and grades are not an effective way to see if students have learned the material. The current grading system should be upgraded and every school should incorporate the plus/minus system in their method of grading.