FIX 3

Questions to Ponder

Do extra credit assignments provide an extra opportunity to learn or encourage students' positive behaviors?

How can extra credit(more work) reflect opportunities to increase levels of enrichment?

FPS Staff Commentary

Colleen Stamm - Warner Middle School

My students and parents still struggle with this concept. I often get the question "Is there any extra credit?" near the end of the trimester. I remind them that there is a reassessment opportunity available after after every assessment. This is their "extra credit" opportunity.

I have also been thinking about ways I might be able to provide opportunities for students to show their learning of a concept after an assessment as a way of extra credit. Bringing in Universal Design for Learning might be one option through allowing students multiple ways to show their learning instead of a paper/pencil test such as a video teaching the concept, a multimedia presentation, or a comic strip. I want to delve deeper into this idea this year.