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Grading for Life Skills
Building college and career readiness by focusing on effort and behavior
Life skills, also known as behavior skills, are the base on which academic and technical skills are built. In the work world, the biggest issue is not technical skill in employees, rather it's behavior skills. People...
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Ross Hartley
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Character Education
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College Readiness
Social Emotional Learning
A Discussion on Grading? Let Me Get My Helmet
It's time we get on the same page
Although based on a ridiculously small data set, my scientific opinion, given the available information, is that teachers are almost completely pacifistic, choosing discourse and debate over confrontation and conflict...
Author:
Guy Gambone
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What Have Rubrics Got To Do With It?
It's time to put your traditional rubrics aside and change the way students learn.
In today's assessment-focused education system, we must change the ways we assess students. Our focus should be on changing our classrooms into environments that are focused on learning with support from teacher...
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April Zawlocki
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Standards-based Grading
Calling for a "Timeout" on Rubrics and Grading Scales
We've been rubricizing everything students create these days: writing, reading comprehension, artwork, math problems, science labs, online practice, physical skills, collaboration, and even their degree of empathy for...
Author:
Rick Wormeli
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Assessment
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How I Won the Grading Game
One single event can change teaching forever.
With more than two decades of experience, I have seen my share of the unusual, but one event in one eighth grade class forever changed the way I think about instruction and grading. It lead me on a personal and...
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Theresa Heilsberg
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The Value of Homework
Homework or not? This is a dilemma teachers struggle with every year and a topic that is tackled in an article in the September issue of AMLE Magazine. I think we all agree that homework should not be assigned just...
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Johanna Ibarra
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Perspectives
Question? To assign homework or not to assign homework? To grade homework or not to grade homework? Educators, parents, students—they all have an opinion. So, what is the value of homework and should it be...
Author:
Cathy Vatterott, Lee Jenkins, and Larry Sandomir
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What Does Passing Look Like?
A variety of assessment models can leave some students scratching their heads about expectations
"So what IS a passing grade?" That question at a recent team assembly of sixth graders, teachers, and support staff brought the discussion to a complete halt. The inquiry by a young lady with braids, braces, and...
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Sandy Cameli & Colleen Masukawa
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Assessment
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Grades
Transition to Middle School
It's Time to Stop Averaging Grades
You’ve always averaged grades. Your teachers averaged grades when you were in school and it worked fine. It works fine for your students. Does it? Just as we teach our students, we don’t want to fall for...
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Rick Wormeli
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Rick Wormeli
Get Away from Grading and Get Students Learning
Why do we grade? Is it to sort students by perceived ability? To measure learning? To engage students? To fail students, because not everyone can or should be successful? To satisfy parents and others in the...
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Paul Barnwell
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