Understanding Grading and Report Cards

1
Understanding Gradingand Report Cards

• Sunset Middle School

2
New Standards -2009-2010

• American Diploma Project
• more rigorous graduation requirements at the high
  school level
• 4 years of Math
• National Benchmark Standards
• All students take College Readiness Test (ACT)
• http//www.achieve.org/files/AboutADP.pdf
• New Tennessee Curriculum Standards
• Mathematics K-12
• Science K-12
• Language Arts K-12
• http//www.state.tn.us/education/curriculum.shtml

3
Parts of the Curriculum

• Standard or Content Strand
• Overarching category designed to organize the
  curriculum by similar skills, concepts,
  processes, and/or understandings
• Grade level Expectations (G.L.E.)
• What students will know and/or be able to do
• State Performance Indicators (S.P.I.)
• How students can demonstrate their
  learning/understanding

4
Communication Tools for Student Learning

• Report Cards
• Student Work
• Parent Connection
• Progress Reports
• Student Led Conferences
• Student Self Assessment
• Parent/Teacher Conferences

5
What do we measure?

• Life Skills
• Behavior
• Participation
• Work Completion
• Working in Groups
• Learning Process (Formative)
• New Understanding/Accomplishment of Standards
  (Summative)

6
Progress Reporting

• All grades will now be connected to state
  standards in content areas
• Two categories for communicating student learning
  
• Formative Assessments activities that are
  designed to promote increases in achievement to
  help students meet the standards support ongoing
  student growth and improvement
• Summative Assessments-are used to document
  achievement or mastery of standards measured at
  a point in time for purposes of reporting and
  accountability

7
Reporting

• Formative Activities will be recorded in
  GradeSpeed (Parent Connection), reported on
  progress reports, but not included in student
  average for grading purposes.
• Summative Assessments will be recorded in
  GradeSpeed by standard and category and will be
  included in a students final average for the
  grading period

8
7th Grade Science Standards

• Embedded Inquiry
• Embedded Technology and Engineering
• Life Science Cells
• Life Science Flow of Matter and Energy
• Life Science Heredity
• Earth and Space Science The Earth
• Physical Science Motion
• http//www.state.tn.us/education/ci/sci/2009_10/gr
  ade_7.pdf

9
Physical Science - Motion
http//www.state.tn.us/education/ci/sci/2009_10/gr
ade_7.pdf
10

• Energy Unit Test
• Name_____________________________________________
  Class_________________________
• Answer the following questions to the best of
  your ability. GOOD LUCK!
• ____ 1. In order to tell if an object is in
  motion, you need to have a (an) ________________.
• a. Brain b. reference
  point
• c. object d. motion
• ____ 2. The distance an object travels in one
  unit of time is the ________________________.
• a. velocity b. Motion
• c. speed d. acceleration
• ____ 3. Which of the following COULD be a unit
  for speed?
• a. meters b. seconds
• c. seconds/meter d. meters/second
• ____ 4. If the speed of an object does not
  chance, the object is traveling at a (an)?
• a. constant speed b. average speed c.
  velocity d. Speed
• Directions Complete the following formulas.
  You may use your formula sheet for help. SHOW
  ALL OF YOUR WORK! (including which formula you
  used!) (4 points each)
•  

11.4
11.3
11.3
11.4
11.3
Total Points 11.3 14 11.4 2 16/16
11.3
11.3
11
Assignments Reported by Standard