Full Description
Transform your grading and assessment practices into powerful tools for student success
When we implement a grading system that prioritizes completion and compliance and penalizes students who take risks, we disrupt the learning journey—not further it. It's time to align how we grade with what we know from research works best and help move learning forward for all students.
Grading Visible Learners provides educators with practical solutions for improving grading approaches, actions, and practices as well as concrete tools and strategies teachers and collaborative teams can adapt and use in their classrooms and schools right away. Inside you'll find
Traits to promote in students so they can drive their own learning
Examples of grading and feedback actions that foster assessment capability in students
Tools, templates, and work samples to help you improve your grading practices
Guidance on how to promote goal-setting as well as help teachers and students view grades as feedback rather than an ending point in the learning journey
Multiple ways for students to show growth and progress
In this hands-on guidebook, you will discover how to best impact learning and ensure that grading serves as a constructive tool and conduit to maximizing impact on student learning rather than a hindrance to student success.
Contents
Foreword by John Almarode
Part I: Setting The Stage For Grading to Develop Great Learners
Chapter 1: Why Effective Grading Matters
Chapter 2: Developing Visible Learners Through Grading
Chapter 3: Challenges to Grading Visible Learners
Chapter 4: Core Grading Actions and the SI2TE Model
Chapter 5: Adult Mindframes Drive Student Learning
Chapter 6: Bringing Clarity to Grading
Part II: Classroom and PLC Actions to Develop Each of the 6 Traits of a Visible Learner Through Grading
Chapter 7: Great Learners Gauge Their Current Level of Understanding
Chapter 8: Great Learners are Ready to Take on Challenges
Chapter 9: Great Learners Adapt Tools to Guide Their Learning
Chapter 10: Great Learners Determine how to Seek Feedback and Recognize Errors are Opportunities to Learn
Chapter 11: Great Learners Evaluate Their Progress
Chapter 12: Great Learners are Successful in Recognizing Their Learning and Teach Others
Chapter 13: Effective Grading is a Critical Component of the Practice of Teaching
Afterword by John Hattie
