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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I kept a running tally all semester of how many times I had to tell each student to get off their phone, put headphones away, get off youtube or games, etc.  Last week I checked to see which students would fall a percentage point short of the next higher semester grade.  Students who had less than 3 strikes, I made sure I found that extra percentage point somewhere in their MP2 grade and bumped them up.

Is it fair to the student who barely missed an A but had a phone addiction? Maybe not.  Do I care? Nope.  Sometimes it pays to follow the rules[/quote]

Teacher here. I like this approach. I bumped up a few kids who were on the edge of a higher grade if they actively engaged in class (asked and answered questions consistently, etc.,) and a few who showed strong effort and a genuine interest in learning [/quote]

I'm curious.  Can you simply assign an A even though the points don't add up?  Or do you need to find some assignment with subjective grading and add points? [/quote]

We were fold by admin to just “make it happen” if we felt it was justified.  It was easier for me to say an assessment was now an 85 instead of an 80[/quote]

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