Grading Policy

Media is a graded course and we use the Standards Based Grading system.  Students will receive grades on assignments that are turned in anytime during the semester and Media grades will appear on the report cards in January and June.  The scale used for grades in Media  is the same (Strong Command, Partial Command and Not Yet.) as the classroom, but what I look for in an individual assignment is a bit different. We have three standards (Think, Create/Share, and Grow) These standards do not change over the six years they have Media. The way we teach them is in a spiraling curriculum of skills that build from year to year. Students cannot realistically master the entire standard  in the lower grades. They are mastering individual skills involved in the standard as we go. Students who are doing their work and demonstrating the skills taught will receive scores of PC. When they start applying those skills independently those scores will start showing that they have a strong command of the standard.