Hans and I gave a SBG&R overview at the middle school principal PLC meeting yesterday. It went pretty well.
Hans and I had a few ideas on the way back to school:
1) Perhaps we should make ourselves available to pre-service educators to talk about SBG&R, because...
2) We talked about how the research is decided about the fact that SBG&R is the way to go, so why don't more teachers/schools use it? Because we not taught about grading and systems are handed down by tradition. Therefore pre-service education is the one way to break the cycle.
Perhaps we should make a class about it . . .
Do other people have ideas about why grading methods are so hard to change?
Standards Based Grading and Reporting? Is the acronym explained somewhere for us Luddites?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I am sure there is a study out there that explains the reasons people resist change.
ReplyDeleteAh, I just read the tag line for your blog - change Luddites to idiots.
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