1. Panorama Summer Session
Professional Development #4

2. Summer Credit Recovery Professional Development
Panorama High School
Summer Credit Recovery
Professional Development
Thursday, July 20, 2017
7:20 – 8:20 am
Library
Objective: to provide support for teachers with authentic assessment and grading.
1. Effective Grading Practices
- Measurement of progress towards proficiency
- Centered around standards-based instruction
- Performance on assessments of learning, not learning activities
2. Feedback from Observations
- Provide multiple opportunities for student discussions
- Use authentic assessments to measure growth
- Use a variety of checking for understanding strategies
Exit Ticket
Describe how you measure students’ progress towards proficiency?

3. Grading

4. Grades Calculate the final grade for the following student: C
Missing Assignment D B A

5. Purpose of Grading
Provide accurate, specific, timely, feedback designed to improve student performance.
(Marzano 2000, 2007; O’Connor, 2007)

6. Leading towards Effective Grading Practices

7. Ineffective Grading Practices
Point penalties for late work, academic dishonesty, or attendance
Extra credit points for things unrelated to standards
Assigning group scores when students engage in cooperative learning
Curving class scores or grades
Averaging student scores
Assigning zeros to student work
Grading homework

8. Effective Grading Practices
Provide multiple opportunities for students to show evidence of learning:
Emphasize most recent evidence of proficiency on standards
Use logic rules, not a calculation to determine subject grades
Ensure all assessments are high quality and standards-based
Develop students who are reflective learners who know how to set and achieve learning goals

9. Describe how you measure student’s progress towards proficiency?
Exit Ticket
Describe how you measure student’s progress towards proficiency?