Ch. 14: Responsive Report Card Fomats

Wormeli explain the importance of making the report card or any official document clear in this chapter. We need parents and students to understand what we mean when we put certain grades on a report card. If we record two grades, we should give students the higher grade. But, if a lower level student achieved we need to show the achievements as well as preparing the next teacher for his/her struggles. We must be fair, but explain how we got there. In some schools they put the letter and than a number next to it (A3). The letter is the grade and the number is the achievement/growth 4 being highest and 1 being the lowest. If you have a straight D student who doesn’t try he or she would get a D1, but if you have a C student who work extremely hard to get a higher grade, you could record a B3 to show growth and the grade he or she deserved. Parents and students must be able to understand the grading process and this might include using a key. I think it would be hard to grade for everyone fairly. Hopefully this advice will help me.