FIX 7

Question to Ponder

How can we report evidence of students' learning of standards and learning goals within the confines of the system we work in, including software limitations?

FPS Staff Commentary

Colleen Stamm - Warner Middle School

This is one of those fixes you may not have control over since you can't create your own report cards. There might be some ways to implement this fix that could be in your control. I have been playing around on how to do this best. Traditionally, homework has been one category in the grade book and assessments the other category. One possibility might be for me to have the standards as categories instead. This would require me to align each homework assignment to a standard though. I could run into some issues where some homework covers more than one standard. Additionally, we currently have homework as 5% of the grade. I could only do the category option if homework was not included in the grade and worth zero points. On the flip side, this could be a great reporting tool for parents if your grading program allows parents to see grades by category, allowing parents to see how students are progressing on one standard. Ultimately, this fix seems to be more difficult to implement than some of the others due to the system we are currently in.