Report Cards Chapter 11

1. Report CardsChapter 11 Oh, oh……. rospenda stiggins report cards

2. The Way We Were/Are In the old days…. Nowadays…. • Rank order • High school rank • Valedictorian • Grades sorted the sheep from the goats • Are they ready for college • Are they ready for the workforce? • Are they lifelong learners? • What’s your drop out rate? • What’s your college entrance rate? • What about diversity? rospenda stiggins report cards

3. Grades as Communicators not motivators Communicator Grade Motivator Grade • It’s only information • It’s about what they learned, not how well they take tests. ( ivory tower, mr) • Tough kid? Learned a lot? • Weighted grade? Learned a lot? • Good grade- good kid • Bad grade- bad class • Good Grade- smart • Bad Grade- dumb • No homework = F • Mom did work? • Eli? • Robert? rospenda stiggins report cards

4. Why have Grades? (mr) • Parents like it • It’s easy • Kids Like it (?) • You can hold on to it • Meets your survival need- • Lets you put 10,000 pieces of info into one letter! rospenda stiggins report cards

5. What About Diverse Needs • Can all children learn to understand at a deep level- for them? • Can all children grow from point A to point B • In their own time • Paraplegic marathoner- do they still finish the race? • What is the race in school? Harvard or Life? rospenda stiggins report cards

6. What do we communicate through report cards? • Achievement • Aptitude • Compliance • Effort • Attitude • The beauty of IEPs (mr) rospenda stiggins report cards

7. The Problem of Report Cards • Terms aren’t defined • Which elements are most important • How to assess • Question- Must rules be hard and fast? Always? rospenda stiggins report cards

8. Factors debatedAchievement We will You will • Give you material • Test you • Get you ready for the “real world” • (drug dealing? Mr) • Master the material • Pass the test • Get the grade • Like a sales job- the more you sell the more you make rospenda stiggins report cards

9. Aptitude Pros Cons • The American way • We all reach the highest potential • The more you learn the better the grade The faster you go, the more you learn Underachievers get motivators (PBIS? mr) • What is the definition of intelligence? Aptitude? • I can’t build a house. Am I dumb? • Underachievers? Background? • What if your label is wrong? • I couldn’t do math, now I teach it. (mr) rospenda stiggins report cards

10. Effort Pros Cons • Americans value effort. (really?, mr) • American dream??? • Encourages risk taking • Creativity • “American Exceptionalism”. • Students are great manipulators • Sucking up???? (mr) • Who’s effort? • Is this really just assertiveness? • Gender Bias? • Who controls the discussions? rospenda stiggins report cards

11. Questions to consider • What are we really assessing? • Do we want learning or regurgitation? • Do we know what great effort looks like? • Does everyone have to spend hours to achieve mastery? • What does effort have to do with motivation? • What is your job? • To learn em or teach em? rospenda stiggins report cards

12. What if? • We looked at needs? • We looked at characteristics? • We aligned activities to meet those? • We gave students some say in how to “show what you know?” • Went from External to internal control? • Think of our class? rospenda stiggins report cards

13. Compliance Pros Cons • We can’t cheat! • Real life expects compliance • Managing a classroom • We know better than the kids- generally • Compliant classes have a greater level of success • ( don’t confuse this with quiet) • Does punishment work? • Is the accuracy of the assessment diminished? • Blind compliance doesn’t teach discretion as the better form of valor rospenda stiggins report cards

14. Attitude Pros Cons • Valued in life • Most effective classroom management tool • Gets acknowledgement to low achievers • Which attitudes are positive • How are they defined? • How do you judge affect? • Robert Kmx rospenda stiggins report cards

15. Consider these questions • What about asking the students? • When kids make up their own consequences….. • What about teaching “cultures” • Street, corporate, world rospenda stiggins report cards

16. Gathering Evidence/ How Tos • Define your targets • Define your time period • Define what success looks like • Build your grading plan around the instructional plan rospenda stiggins report cards

17. Assessment Plan • List the assessments of learning • Make sure you are accurate • Assessments should show how kids are learning • Use multiple types • YOU ARE INVESTIGATING NOT GRADING • For learning not of learning rospenda stiggins report cards

18. Plan the assessments • Align them with the information • Use appropriate assessments for particular skills • Reasoning • Knowledge • Understanding rospenda stiggins report cards

19. Summarize the findings • Be consistent • Be sequential • Minimize Subjectivity rospenda stiggins report cards

20. Practical Advice • Computer software should let you keep a record of standards achievement • Use the latest info to show the latest progress • Use learning contracts when grading diverse learners • Where did the kid start from? • Connect assessment OF learning with report for learning rospenda stiggins report cards

21. Practical Advice • Cooperative learning grades DON’T show Of learning • Discipline the BEHAVIOR of cheating, not the achievement of cheating • The more you learn the better your grade • If extra credit shows you learned more… not just did more…. • Think of our class rospenda stiggins report cards

22. Practical Advice • When in doubt… follow policy (mr) • You can question after you have street cred. • Make sure everyone knows the rules of the game!!!! rospenda stiggins report cards