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Report cards
Posted:
Apr 25, 1999 10:56 PM
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Because the Investigations curriculum is being adopted district-wide,
I'm expecting many changes to occur in the report cards in the
Milwaukee Public Schools. However, since each school in our district
is allowed to develop their own report card, it will be interesting to
see what develops. Lois' school seems well on the way with portfolio
assessment and the grades she mentioned (secure, developing, etc). It
is more difficult, but not impossible, to resolve the work our
students do with a letter grade, but what if I have a 5th grade
student who is still at a level of making tally marks and counting up
to combine numbers. Maybe the child can communicate his/her strategy
well, and s/he is using a strategy that will result in a correct
solution, but it takes several minutes to find the solution to 87+33?
What letter grade should be attached to that child's progress? This
will engender much discussion across our district in the coming school
year. We will have to come to some consensus regarding grades because
we still have a very high mobility rate, and as children move from
school to school, we will have to communicate with other teachers.
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