Having just attended a weekend seminar with Harvey Daniels, his advice regarding assessment is ringing in my ears. First, says he, teachers need to let go of the sense that everything a student does must be graded but, realizing that we have grade books and need to leave a few tracks, he called for binary grading. As he described this, it is an all or nothing sytem--19 pots if you do it, 0 if you don't. He was speaking of lit circles, but AI see room for carryover. He also talked about having kids determine what is really important--a list of expectations generated BY the kids--along with a point value system (ALSO--OF BY THE KIDS). These points add up to 100 and there you go--a grade. I am trying to see this with relationship to strategies
??Thinking through my fingers about making connections?? Marks text with thinking using sticky notes where needed. Makes several meaningful connections. Can take connections back to the text. Is able to articulate connections to others. Recognizes that connections can lead a reader astray. ?? Lori On 5/7/07 7:58 PM, "Linda Wallis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have not used them for grades yet. I could after I get more comfortable > using the rubric. Since each rubric has 5 statements, you could have each > one worth 20 points so 1=20 points, 2=40, 3=60, 4=80, and 5=100. Or I > might decide to use something like 1=50, 2=60, 3=80, 4=90, 5= 100 because a > grade of 20 or 40 would be so difficult to recover from. Linda W > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Ellin Keene has a fairly new book of assessments > > Hi Linda! > > I just got that one! Do you turn these into letter or number grades? If > so, how? > > Kerry > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > -- Lori Jackson District Literacy Coach & Mentor Todd County School District Box 87 Mission SD 57555 http:www.tcsdk12.org ph. 605.856.2211 Literacies for All Summer Institute "Literate Lives: A Human Right" July 12-15, 2007 Louisville, Kentucky http://www.ncte.org/profdev/conv/wlu _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
