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The middle schools in my district do “Student Led Conferences” instead of “Parent-Teacher Conferences”. Students spend time creating portfolios of their work in each class and reflecting on it. At the conference, they present the portfolios to their parents before the teacher checks in to see if the parent has any questions or concerns (or…
Read MoreI use my seating chart for much more than knowing which student goes where! After some observers visited my class on Tuesday and had some questions about what I kept writing on my clipboard, I realized that this is an important part of my instruction that I should probably put on the blog. As you…
Read MoreYesterday was the last day of the first quarter (yikes!), so today is our grading day, and I am spending my time organizing what we learned last quarter and prepping for Quarter 2. I thought that you might be interested to see what we covered in my classes, so I’ll be posting the lists here.…
Read MoreI saw this idea on Jody’s blog. I always wrote the daily schedule as a list of one or two word things in Spanish. For example: Campanada Discusión Canción Cuento However, Jody has a much better way of doing it. I write who will be doing what, which gives students the chance to see more…
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How did you decide how to structure your gradebook? Without exception, in every language class that I took from middle school through college, the gradebook looked very similar. Every graded assignment in the course was placed into a category that matched the assignment type: quizzes, tests, homework, classwork, participation, projects, etc. The weight of each category varied–sometimes,…
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Instead of letter grades, my students receive an abbreviation of one of the following terms on their assignments. Some are entered in the gradebook (summative), but others are not (formative). Formative assessments are given during the learning process and are a way for me and my students to see how they are progressing. Summative assessments…
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