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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a teacher in another county and find this teacher incompetent. This teacher must be old and not able to keep up with the times. It’s ok, it happens. We never could force students back to class. You make it hurt the kids through a grade. Assign a warm up every day and an exit ticket at the end. It will bring their grade down. The teacher said one big assignment could bring their grade up? Every assignment should have the same weight. Not one standard or lesson is bigger than another… fifty percent grade on attempt is still an E. Document communication on an app that shows “read” status even if they don’t respond, like ClassDojo. It’s so easy to complain and be a part of the problem than to be a part of the solution. No, this will not work for everyone but nothing ever does.[/quote]

People point out that a 50% is still an E, and that's true. But there's value information in the degree of E in terms of where the student is with regard to mastery and knowledge.

A kid who gets a 20% on an assessment is WAY farther off from being on track compared to a kid who gets a 50-58%. By FLATTENING all E's to just 50%, you're masking the kids who are REALLY struggling and lumping their performance in with kids who just might be struggling with time management. You're actually taking away vital information for the student and the educator.[/quote]

This might be vital information if 2% of our 160k+ students were getting an E, buts that’s not the case.  Further if the grade is E because the student lacks the time management/detailed focus to turn in assignments on time but are knocking exams out the park, that’s fairly obvious in the grading.   At this point if a kid is getting an E, it just deserves attention regardless if it’s 50% or 20%.   [/quote]

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