Prompt 1:
Alfie Kohn lists 3 negative effects of grading:
- Grades tend to diminish students’ interest in whatever they’re learning.
- Grades create a preference for the easiest possible task.
- Grades tend to reduce the quality of students thinking.
Which do you most connect with and why?
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Prompt 2:
Some school policies expect teachers to give a grade a week. What is expected of your grading practices? Do you feel that parents / administrators value teachers who give more grades to students? How do yours differ from the norm?
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Prompt 3:
Dystopia time! What if grades were banned? Tell us how that would affect teachers, students, parents, the whole system!
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