"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 7:36 AM -0500 wrote: >Wow -that sounds great (at least in theory). I'm not sure what we'd do >if >the powers that be actually had us do this though. I can't imagine the >work >load involved with narrative comments for 125 kids every 4.5 weeks. I >do like >the sound of how you'll be respoding though - it sounds like everyone >will >get a complete picture of strengths and weaknesses.
Hi! 125 kids would be a lot, indeed. My student load is, fortunately, much lower than that. Also, we only send home report cards six times a year. We're feeling good about this format and hoping it works out in practice as well as we think it will in theory. Our work to develop this new system of evaluation actually came out of reading Rick Wormeli's book "Fair is Not Always Equal." As best as I can tell, his take on our system (which he learned about over on the MiddleTalk list) is that it looks like it will work well. I think where he and various other people run into differences of opinion mos frequently is when teachers have to synthesize all they know about students into a single grade, trying to determine what is fair to include in that one single indicator of sometimes dozens of different areas of assessment. Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
