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3 thoughts on “CI System – 2”
One thought that I have about the interpersonal rubric: It works but in some schools like mine you have to tread really carefully.
There is this ideas in education (which makes sense in other subjects) that the grade should solely be based on what the students KNOW, not on their behavior. It makes sense in other subjects where you can learn info on a timeline, but not in language classwes where we know that acquisition is “dynamic, stage-like, and slow”.
I have the support of my admin for the interpersonal rubric, but since I have few grades in the gradebook it really tanked a few kids grades. The parent of one of these students at PT conference was a little bit in my face about what is the grade actually based on if it’s not grammar points, etc. Luckily, I had the multiple choice quiz next to me that I did for Brandon Brown wants a dog (I just used what Carol has in the teacher’s guide) as a scantron test (to make my life easier) and I showed the parent that there are objective grades, the only difference is that the quizzes and tests are based on the information from the novel and not on the grammar points.
Week after next I’m going to put together a mulitiple choice exam based on all of the OWI/Invisible stories this year. I need that hard data. If the only thing I have in the gradebook are True/False quizzes and the interpersonal rubric, I’m cooked. Like really. Since I teach in a private school where parents pay tuitition I have seen parents make teachers and administrators lives hell until they got what they wanted from us if they think the grade is not based on hard data.
Just a thought.
There are many many articles if you search the term jGR here, Greg. They defend and illustrate this way of grading.
Greg, also check out Lance’s stuff. I keep shifting my grading system every year, always looking over my shoulder so to speak.
I just read Lance’s presentation (linked below). I think it is a happy medium between the reality of SLA (cannot be graded) and the systems in our buildings. I’m not currently using it exactly as stated, but am thinking of shifting into it since it would bridge me with others in my building and it seems “comprehensible” for admin and others who have no clue about SLA.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxlEdumlZ-b0R0pmbWQyaDZsSEk/view