Chapter+10


 * Date: || July 9, 2012 || Title of Selection: || Develop Solution other than Grades ||

Identify the special challenges associated with effective communication using grades. Follow a series of guidelines for effective grading. Summarize evidence gathered over time into a meaningful grade. Convert rubric scores into grades. Evaluate and refine your own grading practices using the Rubric for Sound Grading Practices. ||
 * Learning target(s) this selection addresses:

I am very aware that if students have zeros in the grade book for not completed work then their grade does not truly reflect their achievement. Hopefully his will remind me work on getting these students involved in getting ALL graded items turned in.
 * What this selection illustrates about my learning/why I chose this selection:**
 * ** Problem ** || ** Intervention or Consequence Currently in Place ** || ** Grade Lowering? ** ||
 * **Students who do not turn in homework or projects that result in a zero recorded in the grade book, which skews the result of their achievement levels that are reported.** ||  **Students receive a non-passing grade on their report card.**  ||  **yes**  ||
 * ^  ||  **Teachers are constantly reminding students of their missing assignments verbally and also by putting lists out for students to see. Many do not respond.**  ||  **yes**  ||
 * ^  ||  **In some places I’ve taught if there were a certain number of missing assignments that were recorded and then students were given a lunch D-hall where sometimes that would get their work done.**  ||  **Sometimes**  ||


 * **Potential Alternative Intervention or Consequence** || **Support Needed** ||
 * **When students have a missing assignment in a core subject the teacher will ask the student to come back during his/her conference to complete the work.** ||  **Support from administration and extracurricular teachers so that students may miss classes occasionally. This should only be used once during the six weeks for each student in each core subject.**  ||
 * **When students have already used their one time during the six weeks to come during the teacher’s conference and still have missing work the teacher can assign an after school D-hall for completion of their missing work.** ||  **Support needed from administration to provide an after school D-hall that is assigned for a student until their work is complete for each teacher they are missing work for.**  ||
 * **If students still have missing work a conference with parents is mandatory so they can 1) possibly get the students to produce the work 2) be informed that their grade does not reflect their achievement levels because they have zeros.** ||  **Support needed from administration and parents.**  ||