With only ten (!!) weeks left of instruction, I don’t think
I’ll make any major changes this late in the game, but I am trying to make some
screencasts to support students outside of class and trying little changes
before going all in next year.
If I do what I am thinking of doing, I will have a full
summer of prep ahead…daunting!
What I am thinking about is creating LOTS of screencasts –
to teach specific skills and concepts and to review important passages in full
class texts. It helps that I know most of the kids I’ll have next year;
otherwise, I think it would be a little weird to create videos to help them
without knowing what kinds of students they are and what kinds of issues they
normally have.
The other part of this is how to keep track of it all in the
gradebook. At this point, I’m leaning towards two gradebooks: one that shows
completed tasks (watching the videos, rough drafts, participation in online and
in-class discussions, comprehension checks, etc.) and a second that shows
progress towards mastery on the standards. The first gradebook would be simply pass/no
pass – either the task was completed or not (still thinking about deadlines and
late work – and would provide parents with the answer to “is my kid doing the work,”
help me manage where kids are, and enable students to self-monitor. The second
gradebook would be for the semester and final grade and would somehow reflect
their progress towards mastery on the standards. Not sure how one letter grade
would represent progress on all the standards, but hoping to have some more
concrete ideas by next August.
Still not sure how this would work in reality, but in theory, I like where I am headed.
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