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Venturing Into SBG Territory

9/12/2011

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I am a lucky bugger.  I had a great practicum and professional development from teachers that were really ahead of the curve.  I also am a part of a private school system that is extremely productive to my desire to become a better teacher.  The more I read and interact with the teachers in the twitter/blogosphere, the more I realise that I am blessed to be where I am.  This is clearly evident in my mentors approach to assessment.

Standards Based Grading was never around when I was in high school, but it was taught in my university, and is promoted at my school, so professionally I have felt that there is really not any other way to do it.  In my first year of teaching did I climb the great peak of assessment and profess "Veni, Vici, vidi?"  No, it was somewhere more along the lines "stressy, no sleepy, defeatsy."  This summer however I have had the chance to read also sorts of blogs from master assessors, and I have really begun to hone in on what I desire from my classes.

One major problem that I have been looking to rectify is the conflict between numbers, and feedback.  Personally I just don't feel ready to get all Blue Harvest up in here (though it is an ideal that I long for), but I feel I can have students engage in meaningful assessment that looks to their feedback as a guide rather than simply look at there number grade and leave it at that.  My thoughts here today have stemmed from reading Dan Anderson's post  where he gave a great visual of what students see when they see a number.  Since I am not abandoning numbers cold turkey I devised this strategy.  Have them self assess before getting to see the number.  I created this small reflection.
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I feel like this would have students think about their assessment, maybe get rid of the time spent grade comparing, since students would be preparing their reflection.  I don't know if this is a fix, or if it is just more busy work for students at the time of assessment, but it seems to fit with my understanding of assessment as learning.  Will it work?  I have no clue.  I'm still new at this...
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