Ch. Ten Approaches to Avoid When Differentiating Assessment and Grading

Wormeli emphasizes that there are some things that we must take to heart in grading; we don’t have to include everything. I really like number 3 that referred to grading homework because it used to frustrate me when teachers would grade all the worksheets that we still did not really know what we were doing. Homework is meant to be practice. In doing homework the brain is trying to make connections that have not yet been mastered. I agree that we should give quizzes after homework, but allow time to answer questions. These ten things are all aspects that I will keep in mind while grading my students work because what is the sense of grading something that has nothing to do with the assignment.