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Be
sure your requirements are reasonable...harder is not better!!!
If
many students are handing in work, trying, and their grades are not good-look
at how and what YOU as the teacher are doing. All students attending class, trying,
doing the work should be succeeding. If this is not true, YOU need to regroup
and find the methods, materials, curriculum, needed to produce success.
An important concern:
Students need to know where they are in relationship
to others focusing on the standards.
Example:
Mary has not yet mastered
long division.
At this level 81% of the 5th graders have mastered this standard
in this state.
In this classroom 78% have it mastered.
Or, most fifth
graders have mastered this at this time.
This is not necessarily on the report
card but teachers should discuss it with parents.
But the most important
consideration is how they are doing in relationship to their own progress to becoming
proficient in that skill.
You might have terms as
not yet proficient/
progressing / proficient / exceptional.
Students should be graded on
progress / achievement.
Is it really fair to grade you as a teacher with
an average of a C grade
** at first your skill level is low
** but after
working and learning and using and doing you now are an exceptional teacher....
**but, if we average where you started with where you are now...
**that would
be a C...
Would you be happy that none of your effort or accomplishment has
been recognized???
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