I love this. This is very close to the process I am attempting this year, only better planned and thought out. Most of our dept. read Ungrading edited by Susan Blum over the summer, and goal setting, and reflection are our two pillars of grading this year. What I need to do is add in standards in a more clear and transparent way. We only have students for 12 weeks though and much of the school staff is still beholden to very traditional grading practices. I am so hoping ditching traditional grading can improve motivation and learning among students.
Thanks for this model. I just had a conversation with several teachers at our school yesterday about how to set up grading in Skyward to align better with what we think matters (evidence of learning aligned to standards) v. what doesn't stacks of assignment pages with subjective numbers attached. I used the binary 1=attempted/0=not attempted last year for daily classwork and it worked pretty well. In the first 2 weeks I put all of my energy into lesson planning and delivery by creating engaging lessons with both content and class community at the center and now have a bunch of folders full of work to evaluate in some way. I have been reading, but not marking, what we have done together so far in World History. I think I could use a similar set-up with projects aligned to the standards being the category with all of the weight. Thanks for posting this. I appreciate the care and attention to detail. Let's keep making things better and more authentic for kids and for us.
I love this. This is very close to the process I am attempting this year, only better planned and thought out. Most of our dept. read Ungrading edited by Susan Blum over the summer, and goal setting, and reflection are our two pillars of grading this year. What I need to do is add in standards in a more clear and transparent way. We only have students for 12 weeks though and much of the school staff is still beholden to very traditional grading practices. I am so hoping ditching traditional grading can improve motivation and learning among students.
Thanks for this model. I just had a conversation with several teachers at our school yesterday about how to set up grading in Skyward to align better with what we think matters (evidence of learning aligned to standards) v. what doesn't stacks of assignment pages with subjective numbers attached. I used the binary 1=attempted/0=not attempted last year for daily classwork and it worked pretty well. In the first 2 weeks I put all of my energy into lesson planning and delivery by creating engaging lessons with both content and class community at the center and now have a bunch of folders full of work to evaluate in some way. I have been reading, but not marking, what we have done together so far in World History. I think I could use a similar set-up with projects aligned to the standards being the category with all of the weight. Thanks for posting this. I appreciate the care and attention to detail. Let's keep making things better and more authentic for kids and for us.