Here is a question from the forum that we all need to read and provide thoughts about for Melissa:
I’ve been reading through the articles on assessment and grading in an attempt to absorb as much as I can about how to assess and grade students in a CI classroom. I just switched over to this type of teaching this quarter. The end of the quarter is next week and I have about 10 grades in my gradebook (an unannounced vocabulary quiz from the TPR section I started the quarter with, a couple of timed free write grades, and a couple of listening/reading comprehension quizzes.) I didn’t use jGR this quarter because I didn’t find this forum unit until a few weeks ago.
My questions are these:
1. All of my Spanish 2 students have A’s; they rocked the vocab quiz and listening/reading assessments and their timed writes were all above and beyond the target (I didn’t know where to set the bar on the timed write, but they wrote 100+ words in 10 minutes; ALL of them, including Spanish 1). I really don’t care that they all have A’s, I started with stories that were easy for them because we were all trying to figure it out and then moved into some smaller activities that focused on some high frequency words in the past fue, dijo, vio etc and now we are working on a story that is more at their level. I’m worried that I will get in trouble. Thoughts or advice?
2. Also, what do you all do when a student is absent for the story? How do you deal with what follows; activities or assessments that are associated with the story?
3. Also, how do you defend jGR to parents and administrators?
Thanks in advance.