Ch. 7: The Relative ature o Grades nd Their Definitions

Teachers must make lists to stay on track with their class and students. Wormeli explains that not every assignment needs a grade. Students learn in different ways. The most effective is just through feedback. Wormeli emphasized on how to get the big picture across by figuring out how your students learn. Do NOT emphasize on letters, instead make sure the material is clearly understood. We should not keep our teaching aspects in cages like elephants and only assign grades. We should instead be encouraging and not reprimanding. It is important that certain tasks have a grade because grades inference mastery. We should adjust our curriculum to fit our students and so that they achieve to their highest. I remember when I used to get a C on a test and my teacher used to tell me not to worry because it was “average,” this saying made me think it was OK to do bad, so we should learn to implement redo’s to anything and everything. I also found it effective to place an ‘I’ into the letters to stand for incomplete instead of giving a zero because zeros truly hurt an average and an incomplete can be filled in throughout the grading period with the deserved grade.