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[quote=Anonymous]I have always found high school teachers to be helpful when approached with the “please help me understand how my child can improve” perspective.  They know that kids are still developing self-awareness, responsibility, self-monitoring etc.

My own son isn’t a great writer yet as he has dysgraphia so it is a long journey from the ideas in his head to appropriately complex text on a page.

He struggles with only positive feedback. It is encouraging but not super helpful in how to get better. He needs teachers to tell him what not to do and also what he needs to do that he hasn’t demonstrated.

He can’t look at the rubric and figure it out in comparison to his own paper. Example papers help, but those aren’t commonly available. Sometimes the examples are of perfect work which he finds discouraging.

It takes a lot of communication with his teachers to help him identify 3 specific things he can improve with his drafts for papers. We have found 3 is the number that feels challenging but achievable right now.

I’m not saying your child has dysgraphia, but sometime translating the rubric into an evaluation of your own work can be challenging.  It might be worth asking for specific feedback at more frequent intervals to get ahead of the poor grade.

Grading and providing feedback on writing is really challenging and time-consuming. I can’t imagine any teacher wants to make extra work for themselves by deliberately grading inconsistently.

I would be curious what classroom behavior is like. Sometimes there is a workshop model where students give each other feedback on their work. I don’t think this is a very helpful model as you have unskilled people giving feedback. But if your son isn’t a helpful participant then that could be causing issues with grades too. [/quote]

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