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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was told that a perfect spelling test or a perfect math quiz is considered a P.  I kept pushing our school's "specialist" to get an answer on how an ES is determined.  I got the runaround for 1/2 hour then was told this:

Just think of your child's teacher as a doctor.  If you take your child in to see a doctor they have been trained so that they can just look at your child and *know* what the problem is.  Our teachers are the same way.  They just *know* whether a child deserves an ES.

After that, I gave up because I realized what I was up against.  I was done wasting my time.[/quote]

My child's teacher gave the following analogy to baking a cake:

N - most ingredients assembled, cake not baked
I - cake baked, but not completely, and some ingredients missing
P - cake completely baked, all ingredients included
ES - triple-layer genoise with pastry cream and strawberry jam filling and marzipan roses and violets on top[/quote]
I love this analogy
it's great[/quote]

From what a teacher has told me, in order to get an ES, the child has to demonstrate understanding and connections of a concept not yet taught to a concept they are still learning.  This might be a poor example, but let's say in math, the kids are learning how to add (so, this would be a Ker).   They learn 3+1 = 4.  Then a child realizes that there is a relationship with those three numbers:  4 take away 1 is 3, and 4 take away 3 is 1 before they have learned this in class.  The child writes this on the HW/CW without prompting.   If the child makes this connection on his/her own, that would constitute an ES. However, I think to get that ES on a report card, the child would have to consistently demonstrate this kind of thinking for the entire quarter in that subject.  That's why it's hard to get an ES on a report card -- it's really hard for a young child to demonstrate such leaps in thinking for the entire quarter.  Some kids can do it because they are naturally smart (or maybe tutored at home).[/quote]

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