This post resonates with my experience and that at my secondary school. I have been iterating for years to grow and perfect the process to align with my objectives and those of my students. As other teachers have seen the results (!!) and asked to model mine they have found it incredibly difficult, bailing and blaming “the system“ rather…
This post resonates with my experience and that at my secondary school. I have been iterating for years to grow and perfect the process to align with my objectives and those of my students. As other teachers have seen the results (!!) and asked to model mine they have found it incredibly difficult, bailing and blaming “the system“ rather than acknowledging the inherent challenges or their lack of willingness to self examine their own practices.
This is the kind of experience that inspired this post! I hear a lot of people who think that alternative grading must be done "just so", and who don't feel like they have any power to change or customize it -- of course we're trying to send the opposite message on this blog! I partly blame some of the big names in K-12 who are indeed selling SBG wholesale to schools and are quite rigid about its implementation.
This post resonates with my experience and that at my secondary school. I have been iterating for years to grow and perfect the process to align with my objectives and those of my students. As other teachers have seen the results (!!) and asked to model mine they have found it incredibly difficult, bailing and blaming “the system“ rather than acknowledging the inherent challenges or their lack of willingness to self examine their own practices.
This is the kind of experience that inspired this post! I hear a lot of people who think that alternative grading must be done "just so", and who don't feel like they have any power to change or customize it -- of course we're trying to send the opposite message on this blog! I partly blame some of the big names in K-12 who are indeed selling SBG wholesale to schools and are quite rigid about its implementation.