The document outlines the agenda for a Regents Physics Parents Night. It discusses standards-based grading where students are graded based on how well they know physics concepts rather than other factors. Feedback is meant to clearly show learned and unlearned concepts, and homework is considered practice and does not affect grades. Learning paces may differ, so students are not penalized for slower learning.

1. Regents Physics
Parents Night

2. Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I
remember. Involve
me and I learn.
— Benjamin Franklin

3. Science is a way of
thinking much more
than it is a body of
knowledge.
— Carl Sagan

4. Idea first, name later.
— Arnold Arons

5. Paradigm Lab

6. Board Meetings

8. New Situations

13. Breaking the
Model

15. Lab Practicums

17. Research

19. Standards-Based
Grading

20. Standards-Based Grading
• Students should be graded on how well they
know physics.

21. Standards-Based Grading
• Students should be graded on how well they
know physics.
• Feedback should give a clear view of what has
and has not been learned.

22. Standards-Based Grading
• Students should be graded on how well they
know physics.
• Feedback should give a clear view of what has
and has not been learned.
• Homework is practice and should not affect
your grade.

23. Standards-Based Grading
• Students should be graded on how well they
know physics.
• Feedback should give a clear view of what has
and has not been learned.
• Homework is practice and should not affect
your grade.
• Everyone learns at a different pace so you
should not be penalized for learning at a
slower pace.

24. Nathan Porter
nporter@schodack.k12.ny.us
@MrPorterPhysics
http://180dayswithporter.postach.io/
https://activegrade.appspot.com/mhhs