LET’S TALK ABOUT

GRADING

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Pretend this is

Jumping Jacks Class

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Jumping Jacks Scores

week Student A Student B

1 62 41

2 66 44

3 73 67

4 73 99

5 80 100

6 84 100

What is a fair way to grade these students

based on the target?

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Pretend this is our rubric

1

Beginning

2

Approaching

3

Secure

4

Exemplary

Student can perform

a Jumping Jack with

assistance, but does

not do it consistently

on his/her own

Student knows how

to perform a Jumping

Jack but cannot

consistently perform

100 without stopping.

Vocabulary: jumping

jack,

Student consistently

performs 100

Jumping Jacks

without stopping

Student consistently

creates and

performs different

styles of Jumping

Jacks

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Changing our Mind Set

Shift the focus from grades to

learning

• What do you know now?

• What can you do now?

• How have you improved?

• What do you still need to learn?

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Changing the way we grade

We can be very specific:

• look at the standards (targets)

• that will show what you know and what you need to learn or

what you need to practice

• It might look and feel different

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Look at your exit slip

• I circled any question that was not correct

• Let’s look at the exit slip with our new way of grading

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Let’s Try the Rubric

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How does this improve learning?

• Instead of a % grade, now you know where you are on

the proficiency scale

• Now I know what to teach you NEXT

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