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Amy Rever Sarah Zerwin

Brian Rozinsky

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Describe your current feelings about grades/grading based on your role in education. What approaches to assessment have you taken recently? How do those compare to where you’ve been and where you might go next?

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  1. What did you write or talk about in terms of your past and present feelings about grades/grading? Based on these experiences, how might assessment look for you and your students in the coming school year?
  2. What strikes you about the AnswerGarden contributions?
  3. When it comes to your particular professional context, what factors help or hinder your ideal assessment method(s)?
  4. What’s one piece of advice you’d offer a teacher seeking alternatives to traditional grading? What about a teacher who favors traditional grading?
  5. Looking back with the benefit of hindsight, what’s something you’d do differently in the grading part of your journey as an educator?

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Closing Question

In matters of grades/grading, what can I commit to keep doing, to stop doing, or to change?

Reflection Modes

  • Find an accountability partner in this room with whom to share your commitment out loud.
  • Write your commitment on paper or in a digital space for yourself. (You could even drop a text box onto your page in the Contacts slides…)
  • Try futureme.org to capture your commitment as a letter for later re-sharing.
  • Something better you think of!

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