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Title: Grading in a Differentiated Classroom


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Grading in a Differentiated Classroom
  • How does a teacher acknowledge academic growth of
    individual students within a traditional grading
    system?

2
  • What is the purpose of grading?
  • How do you grade?

3
With 15 million children at risk of academic
failure, the schools must shift their focus from
sorting and selecting to teaching and
learning. Canady and Hotchkiss
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Two Views of Assessment
Assessment is for
Assessment is for
  • Gatekeeping
  • Judging
  • Right Answers
  • Control
  • Comparison to others
  • Use with single activities
  • Nurturing
  • Guiding
  • Self-Reflection
  • Information
  • Comparison to task use over multiple activities
  • Planning
  • Flexible grouping

Source Carol Ann Tomlinson
5
Food For Thought
The following questions help ensure that grading
practices are productive for all students.
  • How do learners benefit from a grading system
    that reminds everyone that students who speak
    English as a second language do not perform as
    well as students without disabilities or for whom
    English is not their native tongues?

Source Carol Ann Tomlinson
6
  • In what ways do our current grading practices
    motivate struggling or advanced learners to
    persist in the face of difficulty?
  • Is there an opportunity for struggling learners
    to encounter excellence in our current grading
    practices?

Source Carol Ann Tomlinson
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  • Is there an opportunity for advanced learners to
    encounter struggle in our current grading
    practices?
  • What do we gain by telling our most able learners
    that they are excellent on the basis of no
    intellectual risk, necessitates no persistence,
    and demands that they develop few academic coping
    skills?

Source Carol Ann Tomlinson
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Concepts Important to Teachers Grading Practices
Assessment starts with the STANDARD. Reliability-
Accuracy and Consistency Validity-Meaningfulness
and Appropriateness Formative Assessment-Data
collected from pre-assessments,
homework, practice,
and learning tasks to determine future
instruction. Summative Assessment-Data collected
to determine level of mastery.
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Learning tasks in a differentiated classroom are
based on students
  • Product
  • Content
  • Process
  • Readiness
  • Interest
  • Learning style

and
So
How does a teacher grade?
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What would you do?
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By using..
  • Rubrics
  • Checklists
  • Portfolios
  • Student self-assessment
  • Teacher/student conferences
  • Classroom observations
  • Tests, quizzes, homework

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What does a teacher need to consider when he/she
assesses a student with an Individualized
Education Plan?
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How does a teacher go from differentiated
assessments to a grade book?
Factors to consider
  • Complexity of task
  • Level of mastery
  • Evidence of growth
  • Purpose of task
  • Culminating
  • Evaluative in nature

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Communication of Standards and Progress
  • Students
  • Provide clear criteria, models
  • Feedback
  • Parents
  • Newsletters
  • Student-Led Conferences
  • Report cards, Mid-term Reports
  • School Community
  • Middle School Team Meetings
  • Collaboration

15
Reflection
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