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Moanalua High School School-Wide Grading Policy

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Moanalua High School School-Wide Grading Policy

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    1. Moanalua High School School-Wide Grading Policy Moanalua High School Professional Development Conference April 2008

    2. Step 1: In your groups, discuss the scenario and decide on the grade that student should receive. Step 2: Reflect on this question: How easy was it for the members of your group to “agree” on the grade given?

    3. Please group yourselves by the color of your sheet. Your group’s assignment is: Blue - Scenario 1 Pink - Scenario 2 Yellow - Scenario 3 Green - Scenario 4 Purple - Scenario 5 Aqua - Scenario 6 Red - Scenario 7 White - Scenario 8 Orange - Scenario 9 Bellwork

    4. Outcomes: Why do we need to change our view of grading and assessing students? How did we design and implement the policy? What challenges did / do we face?

    5. Why do we “grade”? Do we “grade”… To motivate students to do well in school? To let students know whether they are meeting our expectations or not? To let students know where they “rank” in the class? Other reasons??

    6. Assessment “legacy” In the “old” days… “Winners and losers were exactly what society felt it needed and wanted from its schools: a dependable rank order by the end of high school” (Stiggins)

    7. Assessment “legacy” A New mission… “Society is asking schools to raise the floor of the rank order up to a certain level of minimum competence.” (academic standards) States / schools are held accountable for helping all students meet them (Stiggins)

    8. Moanalua High School’s attempt at a school-wide standards-based grading policy

    9. Year 1: Process Convening a Task Force (22 members) Membership: administrators, teachers, students and parents Selection: by peers Meetings in SY 2006-2007: 4 Reaching common understandings about SB Grading BOE policies related to grading Principles of SB grading

    10. Year 1: Process (continued) Designing a Format Components to include Working on drafts by sections Collecting feedback Refining the drafts Sharing with stakeholders Implementing school wide

    11. Product Purpose of Grading Purpose of Grading Policy Foundations of SB Grading Guiding Principles: Teacher / Student Levels of Achievement Reporting GLOs

    12. Year 2: Implementation

    13. Communicating with stakeholders Students--Course syllabus Parents--Forums, The Word Teacher Sharing

    14. Implementation Issues: Consistency -- inconsistency of implementation Separating achievement and “behavior” “Everything counts” or only “summatives” count? Varying interpretations of “Levels of Achievement” descriptors

    15. Addressing the Issues Standards-Based Grading Resource Booklet Definitions Strategies FAQs Scenarios Bibliography

    16. And the journey continues…

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