To better serve the whole child, look at the whole report card. Although parents and teachers spend more time in conferences talking about behavior than they do about rubrics and test scores, too many teachers are still guessing when it comes to using outdated behavior ratings and comments to describe the whole child. With this book, you’ll take report cards to the next level, integrating social-emotional learning and character development into any grading system. Resources include Guided exercises for analyzing existing report cards Suggested report card designs Tips on improving teacher-parent communication Case studies Testimonials from teachers and students
Each one of the report cards has a grade on one side and a year on the other side. The rule is: “If a report card has an 'A' on its grade side, then it has 'year 3' on its comment side.” As you can see, two of the report cards are ...
Elias, Ferrito, and Moceri (2016) say that we must ask if “the other side” of the report card “address(es) the behaviors most worth talking about, that is, those most essential and best aligned with our ultimate goal of educating the ...
... improvement has been made, rather than just where they are (Guskey, 1996b, 2006c; Guskey & Jung, 2006). As we showed in Chapter 4, most of the research evidence on progress criteria comes from studies of individualized instruction ...
In 2007, Valley Farm Public School was on the short list for a Garfield Weston Award for Excellence in Education in the category of “Improvement in Academics.” Based on the Annual Report Cards on Ontario's Elementary Schools, ...
But then Nora gets fed up with the importance everyone attaches to test scores and grades, and she purposely brings home a terrible report card just to prove a point.
Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.
On Amy's own kindergarten report card, her teacher had written, “Has natural intelligence, but talks too much and can't sit still." Daniel used to get “improvement needed" on his report cards. “That was the F in public elementary school ...
One may need to change the company he keeps, finding other friends to spend time with. ... Though created to be social creatures, most of us have experienced more broken relationships than we did good ones. The good ones were a rarity ...
“We're on our way to MacDonald's on the harbor to do some panhandling. This time of day there's a lot of people along there, “ said Mac. “I have $5.00. I can pick us up something to eat.” “We'll talk to you because we want to — not for ...