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[quote=Anonymous]Talk to the teacher. It sounds like this teacher doesn’t understand standards based grading. It does not mean that students can’t ask questions or ask for help. It doesn’t mean that instructions shouldn’t be given. You DD should be able to do the assignment again if she isn’t meeting the standard.

A good teacher will be able to give guidance without spoon feeding the actual answers. This requires listening to the students question not assuming you know what they don’t know. If the student looks lost, asking them questions to understand what they do know. Show them a model or different example, walk them through this and then see if they can do it on their own. Give them confidence and then have them complete for mastery.
The concept behind standards based is that students can reattempt until they meet the standard but many teachers don’t want the extra work.

Lazy teachers or incompetent ones interpret standards based to mean I don’t have to give good instructions, I don’t have to grade, I assign grades without any accountability …which means that often I basically rank and stack without really looking at the work. This means the best students always get As, students that do fine but don’t care get Bs and Cs, students who wasted my time and get things wrong get DS. Much faster! [/quote]

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