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Ron King

Standards Based Grading: District-Wide Journey - 1 views

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    It's a pretty exciting time to work in my current school district. About twenty years ago, the elementary school implemented a standards-based report card. Over the past several years, we've seen a grassroots movement in the area of assessment and grading reform in our secondary buildings. Dozens of teachers and building leadership teams have visited and/or inquired about what's going on in our high school and middle school, which is one of the reasons we'll soon be co-hosting a standards-based grading conference in eastern Iowa (before you ask, we've reached our registration capacity and the waiting list has been closed as well).
Troy Patterson

Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns - The Washington... - 0 views

  • High school students are sitting passively and listening during approximately 90 percent of their classes.
  • In eight periods of high school classes, my host students rarely spoke.
  • much of the day was spent absorbing information but not often grappling with it.
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  • realize how little autonomy students have, how little of their learning they are directing or choosing
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