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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]

Yes, when teachers finalize grades there is a way to manually enter a grade, often referred to forcing a grade.  This typically happens when students have one teacher marking period 1 and a different teacher marking period.  Synergy can't automatically calculate the final grade, so teachers have to go in and manually calculate the grade to override Synergy.  Teachers can use this feature to 'bump' up a student from a C to a B or B to an A.  Teachers can also go in and add a point to an individual assignment, like you said and add points.

Grades are about a body of evidence and determining if a student has met those standards.   I always would bump a student who had an x9.1-.4 to the next grade.  That comes down to missing one or two points on an assignment.

This is one of the things I really hated about teaching.  So many students chase points and really don't care about the learning.  If a student came to me to ask me to bump their grade, I would usually ask them to tell me what they thought the most important thing they learned that marking period.  If they could answer that, I would bump them up. [/quote]

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