What would you think if your principal said, “We’re doing away with report cards, but you still have to tell your students and their parents how they’re doing in class.” How would you measure a student’s success? In today’s episode, we delve into the idea that teachers, students, and parents place too much emphasis on […]
Are We Teaching Students How To Swim Or Handing Them Rocks As They Sink?
As an educator, I believe it is my duty to help students succeed. When I was a student, if I didn’t do my work (and I did this to myself one semester in the 5th grade), my teacher let me fail. My parents then coached me through the process of realizing that I’d messed up […]
Grading Policy: Considering A Revision
In traditional classrooms, teachers hand out assignments and set deadlines. Students complete those assignments, meet (or not) those deadlines, and then live with whatever grade they receive. If I had held to this routine last year, many of my students would have flunked, and I would have been in trouble.Why? First, as the graphic above points […]