An introduction to standards based grading for 4th and 5th graders

1. LET’S TALK ABOUT
GRADING
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2. Pretend this is
Jumping Jacks Class
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3. Jumping Jacks Scores
week Student A Student B
1 62 41
2 66 44
3 73 67
4 73 99
5 80 100
6 84 100
What is a fair way to grade these students
based on the target?
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4. Pretend this is our rubric
1
Beginning
2
Approaching
3
Secure
4
Exemplary
Student can perform
a Jumping Jack with
assistance, but does
not do it consistently
on his/her own
Student knows how
to perform a Jumping
Jack but cannot
consistently perform
100 without stopping.
Vocabulary: jumping
jack,
Student consistently
performs 100
Jumping Jacks
without stopping
Student consistently
creates and
performs different
styles of Jumping
Jacks
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5. Changing our Mind Set
Shift the focus from grades to
learning
• What do you know now?
• What can you do now?
• How have you improved?
• What do you still need to learn?
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6. Changing the way we grade
We can be very specific:
• look at the standards (targets)
• that will show what you know and what you need to learn or
what you need to practice
•It might look and feel different
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7. Look at your exit slip
• I circled any question that was not correct
• Let’s look at the exit slip with our new way of grading
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8. Let’s Try the Rubric
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9. How does this improve learning?
• Instead of a % grade, now you know where you are on
the proficiency scale
• Now I know what to teach you NEXT
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