Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do they track for middle school?
My kid at WMS gets letter grades. He never did at Discovery, and I didn’t bother looking at the report cards. He’s thrilled to have actual grades now, and I have a much better sense of his progress.
Same, my child was really happy to start getting grades and it was interesting how much more motivated he was to do well. He pretty quickly figured out with the standards based report cards in elementary that tests didn't matter, etc. and unfortunately he just didn't work as hard.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No grades. They have a standard such as student can add at grade level. They either meet the standard, are approaching standard, are developing or something else. It’s useless and I don’t even look at their report cards anymore.
So A B C?
No letter grades. Just a general description of how they’re progressing. Some teachers use an approach that describes how they’re progressing towards an end of school year goal (in other words no student can meet the standard until the end of the school year because they haven’t been assessed on all of the material yet) and others use an approach that describes how they are doing according to where they should be at that point of the school year, so they can meet the standard all year long.
It sucks.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No grades. They have a standard such as student can add at grade level. They either meet the standard, are approaching standard, are developing or something else. It’s useless and I don’t even look at their report cards anymore.
Same. The report cards are now totally useless.
It's Meets Expectations, Approaching Mastery, and Developing or something like that. No letters or numbers. They just put the words.
The only subject that gets tracked for middle school right now is math and they use math inventory scores, CoGAT and SOLs.
I believe they are offering more intensified content in middle school starting next school year. That will probably be based on teacher recommendation? Self placed? No idea.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No grades. They have a standard such as student can add at grade level. They either meet the standard, are approaching standard, are developing or something else. It’s useless and I don’t even look at their report cards anymore.
So A B C?
No letter grades. Just a general description of how they’re progressing. Some teachers use an approach that describes how they’re progressing towards an end of school year goal (in other words no student can meet the standard until the end of the school year because they haven’t been assessed on all of the material yet) and others use an approach that describes how they are doing according to where they should be at that point of the school year, so they can meet the standard all year long.
It sucks.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No grades. They have a standard such as student can add at grade level. They either meet the standard, are approaching standard, are developing or something else. It’s useless and I don’t even look at their report cards anymore.
So A B C?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How do they track for middle school?
My kid at WMS gets letter grades. He never did at Discovery, and I didn’t bother looking at the report cards. He’s thrilled to have actual grades now, and I have a much better sense of his progress.
Anonymous wrote:No grades. They have a standard such as student can add at grade level. They either meet the standard, are approaching standard, are developing or something else. It’s useless and I don’t even look at their report cards anymore.
Anonymous wrote:How do they track for middle school?
Anonymous wrote:No grades. They have a standard such as student can add at grade level. They either meet the standard, are approaching standard, are developing or something else. It’s useless and I don’t even look at their report cards anymore.