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Grading for Mastery and Redesigning My Gradebook

Catlin Tucker

For the last two years, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the traditional approach to assessing students and reporting grades. This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. Redesigning My Gradebook. 2 = basic.

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OPINION: This high-poverty district learned to think differently about teaching and learning

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. In 2006-07, St. From 2006 to 2016, St. Mary Parish knew change was needed.

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Games and Apps for Supporting Young Students with Mathematics Difficulties

edWeb.net

According to American School Board Journal in 2006, 40% of US kindergarteners are already one to three years below grade level when they first enter public school. Using math games like those found in the Todo Math app for iPad can be an effective way to hone mathematic skills and to engage all kinds of learners.

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How little is too little money for schools?

The Hechinger Report

They were also given a common planning period to discuss student progress and problems and consider ways to make lessons more rigorous and engaging. There were people who really didn’t believe the reports,” he said. The district also embraced the new Common Core standards, despite controversy elsewhere. percent in 2007.

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Inside Tips for Successfully Implementing Online Assessments

edWeb.net

Whether schools are 1:1 or still relying on computer carts, the move to online assessments creates new needs from devices to professional development to data privacy policies. Have an instructional framework centered around curriculum design before talking about assessment. Feedback is more than just one assessment.

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How A Strengths-Based Approach to Math Redefines Who Is “Smart”

MindShift

A group of young women who had graduated from high school between 1997 and 2006 sat at the front of the room crying and laughing about their experiences learning math at Railside High (a research pseudonym for the school). Each student in the group has a role: team captain, resource manager, recorder-reporter and facilitator.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” ” The publisher in question: Pearson.