Ch. 13: Gradebook Formats for theDifferentiated Classroom

Everything we do should promote students learning. If a student comes up to ask for a grade, we must be able to give it correctly and be able to explain why they have what they have in my class. To get to this organizational result, we can group assignments by standards/objectives/benchmarks, weight/category, date or topic-based. I find the topic-base grade-book confusing and hard to follow. Wormeli sees this as an appealing way to grade and keep track of work because it has a key. I don’t think any of this will be much of a problem because nowadays, teachers have online grade-books in which students and parents can check for themselves. It is not a bad idea to keep a paper grade-book in case anything happens, but nonetheless, they should be clear, organized and easy-access.