I got this from a colleague:
…students using English lose daily participation points….
I don’t agree with students losing participation points. It sets the teacher up as a bean counter. The perception of the child is that they can be wrong and that the teacher cares more about the point counting than the kid. I don’t see the value. First, it’s impossible to keep up with; second, and by far the worst thing, is that it alienates kids. And it won’t change them. School for those kids then becomes a place where points are taken away from them and ho hum what else is new. I’m against the quantification of jGR beyond what we have now and I am against the daily analysis of what the kids have done in class. I like to keep the grade qualitative, as in, what is the quality of their work in terms of jGR, the Interspersonal Skill, the Communication Standard, and the Classroom Rules poster.
