| 1. | 2/14/2008 9:52:00 PM | As students move through each grade level, grading consistency is crucial. |
| 2. | 3/4/2008 3:01:00 PM | Secondary goal....but let's revisit the report card. We need to survey parents to get their true feelings on it. Can we provide a survey at parent teacher conferences next fall? It could be in the computer lab where parents go right from conferences to the lab to do a Survey Monkey feedback. |
| 3. | 3/6/2008 4:52:00 PM | Research shows that effective assessment informs instruction. It does not check up on teachers. Creating more documents and more paperwork does not lead to better teaching. Sometimes more paperwork takes away from the time that teachers have to prepare and teach kids. |
| 4. | 3/6/2008 6:40:00 PM | We need to reevaluate our current report cards. There are many lines on the report cards that are unnecessary and difficult for parents to understand. Writing can be revisited on the report card and self directed learning. We add,but we do not remove anything. We have approximately 64 lines per child to fill out per report card period. |
| 5. | 3/6/2008 6:38:00 PM | Report cards are not parent friendly |
| 6. | 3/6/2008 8:33:00 PM | Alternatives to traditional grades could be explored, along with grading the child's actual performance. Grading for Learning by Ken O'Connor (I believe), would be an excellent place to start. |
| 7. | 3/6/2008 10:37:00 PM | Again, this takes teacher time. All of these documents are fine if we are given the time to create and use them. Elemetary report cards take at least 13 hours to complete per class. We are given basically 2-3 hours on records day to do a 13 hour job. |