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Standards Based Grading

Standards Based Grading. What the $*@% is going on!?. Adam Holman, Anderson High School. The Montillation of Traxoline.

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Standards Based Grading

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  1. Standards Based Grading What the $*@% is going on!? Adam Holman, Anderson High School

  2. The Montillation of Traxoline • It is very important that you learn about traxoline. Traxoline is a new form of zionter. It is montilled in Ceristanna. The Ceristannians gristerlate large amounts of fevon and then bracter it to quasel traxoline. Traxoline may well be one of our most lukised snezlaus in the future because of our zionter lescelidge. Answer the following questions in your best handwriting: 1. What is traxoline?2. Where is traxoline montilled?3. How is traxoline quaselled?4. Why is traxoline important?

  3. The Current Problem with Grades • By grading every assignment, we are telling kids that points are worth more than learning • This leads to the following problems: • Cheating • Crying for extra credit • Once the class has moved on, old material is pretty much dead • Gradebooks only tell about individual assignments and nothing about the content we wanted the students to learn • But occasionally, learning is stumbled upon

  4. What I want from my students • I want them to focus on learning. • Points and grades often get in the way of this. • I want them to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. • This requires you to take risks, make mistakes, and try again. You should be rewarded for this and not penalized. • I want to know what they understand. I want them to know what they understand. • This requires frequent, useful feedback. 80% is not useful feedback. • I want them to be responsible for their own learning. • This requires you to have the information, tools, and freedom to do so. • I want their final grade to reflect their understanding of the standards for this course. • This requires grades to be associated with standards and you to have multiple opportunities to demonstrate your understanding.

  5. So what exactly is SBG? • Indicates what students know and are able to do • Measures a student’s progress towards a standard • Indicates if the student has mastered the standard • Is ongoing • Clearly communicates expectations ahead of time • Occurs when appropriate, not just on scheduled days • Often uses tasks that reveal common misunderstandings • Grades are based on the results of multiple experiences

  6. How can SBG solve my HW issue? • With SBG, teachers are FREE to assign homework without worrying about how to grade it and what to do when students copy homework from each other. Teachers do not have to collect a stack of copied work, take several hours to mark them, only to return them the next day to end up in the blue recycling bin. • With SBG, students are FREE to tackle homework for the sake of practice without worrying about performance. And students are free to choose not do homework if they do not need the practice.

  7. What can SBG do for you? • SBG makes it CLEAR to teachers which of their assignments are meaningful.  SBG puts a stop to baseless extra credit. • SBG makes it CLEAR to students what they need to know and be able to do in order to be successful. With a list of standards given to students at the start of each unit, they do not have to second-guess what will be on the test.   Students also know exactly why their assignments are important. • SBG make it CLEAR to both teachers and students how students are progressing by CLEARLY pointing out strong and weak areas.

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