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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the PP who posted about having learned the opposite while in grad school. I actually do not believe in grading at all, and much prefer students and families having an awareness of what they know and what they’re ready to learn next. My program was not a traditional education program, and I’m very happy with the philosophy I learned, I also agree that in order to be a good teacher, you need actual in classroom experience. I didn’t get my masters until I had been teaching for many years, and it only helped solidify my understanding of what I already suspected.[/quote]

This is a nightmare approach to teaching. How do you assess what the kids have learned? How do you ensure that they work to the standards they need to learn?[/quote]

I’m confused by your confusion. You observe, you ask questions, you have students work on assignments, projects, etc. just like they regularly would. You compare their work and answers to what the standard says to see if they are proficient. It’s really simple. You just don’t need to give a participation grade, homework grade, or give things a letter or percentage grade. Standards-based/proficiency/narrative grading is quite common.[/quote]

so you still grade them but it’s just pass-fail? [/quote]

No, it’s not pass/fail. That would mean that you are able to “fail” at something just because you haven’t learned it yet, even though you may be able to learn it tomorrow or in 2 years. This is about understanding what a student is able to do with proficiency so you know what they are ready to develop next. This is probably hard to understand because we are so used to lumping kids into grade levels expecting them to be able to learn the same thing in the same amount of time, but that’s not developmentally accurate. Everyone is on their own learning trajectory.[/quote]

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