End of year reflections - SBAR analysis
I wrapped up grading final exams today. Feels great, but it was also difficult seeing students coming in to get their final checklists signed before they either graduate or move on to a different...
View ArticleStandards Based Grading - All in, for the new year
I've written previously about wanting to be part of the Standards Based Grading crowd. My quiz policy was based in the idea - my quizzes cover skills only and in isolation, the idea being that if...
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Why SBG is blowing my mind right now.
I am buzzing right now about my decision to move to Standards Based Grading for this year. The first unit of Calculus was spent doing a quick review of linear functions and characteristics of other...
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Rethinking the headache of reassessments with Python
One of the challenges I've faced in doing reassessments since starting Standards Based Grading (SBG) is dealing with the mechanics of delivering those reassessments. Though others have come up with...
View Article2012-2013 Year In Review - Standards Based Grading
This is the first in a series of posts about things I did with my classes this year. When I made the decision last fall to commit to standards based grading, these were the main unknowns that hung at...
View Article2012-2013 Year In Review – Learning Standards
This is the second post reflecting on this past year and I what I did with my students. My first post is located here. I wrote about this year being the first time I went with standards based grading....
View ArticleStandards Based Grading & Unit Tests
I am gearing up for another year, and am sitting in my new classroom deciding the little details that need to be figured out now that it is the "later" that I knew would come eventually. Last year was...
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Standards Based Grading: Bridging the Gap
I ended last semester feeling pretty discouraged about my implementation of standards based grading. I still felt pretty good about what it was doing for students. For the students that were actually...
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Standards Based Grading, Year Two (Year-In-Review)
This was my second year using standards based grading with my classes. I wrote last year about how my first iteration went, and made some adjustments this year. What did I do? I continued using my 1-5...
View Article2014-2015 Year-In-Review: Standards Based Grading
This was my third year using standards based grading with my classes. I wrote last year and the year before about my implementation. What did I do differently? I had my WeinbergCloud implementation...
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