Description
Differentiation is an important part of making sure that every one of your students is having their educational needs met. Creating well-differentiated lessons can make grading tricky, but educators Emily Savage and Dr. Jennifer Lorch say that it doesn’t have to be difficult. In the course “Grading in the Differentiated Classroom,” Ms. Savage and Dr. Lorch give educators the tools they need to accurately and fairly grade their lessons. After taking this course, you’ll be prepared to grade any differentiated lesson.
In this course, you’ll learn about:
- Grading policies
- Practical ways to organize
- Equity
- How to grade with the end in mind
2016 ODE Teacher Competencies: f, g, h
NAGC Teacher Preparation Standard: 4.2, 4.4, 5.2
Click here for a leader’s guide created by the Ohio Association for the Gifted and Talented.
Alan – EANES ISD (verified owner) –
Too many reflections and assignments.
Lisa Margot – PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (verified owner) –
really enjoyed this course
Jennifer – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
good advice on grading changes
Rob – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
Not bad. It’s not a direction I want to move in. But, I align pretty well with it philosophically.
tom – GREENEVIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
Well done and well put together. Some really good ideas. I was hoping for more details to be provided, but I still enjoyed the lesson.
Kristi – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
I do think too much emphasis sometimes is put on the grade rather than the learning, but with overcrowded class sizes I think some of this is a challenge to find the time.
It’s a little funny is it not that this presentation is about looking at grades differently, but teachers must score at least 75% on your quiz to get credit for the course.
Becky – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
It shed light on how differenciating can be graded
Josi – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Good information with some good examples.
Jennifer – NEWARK CITY (verified owner) –
This was a good course to learn about grading.
Beverly – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Helped think through the grading of differentiation.
Felicia – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
So this was the best course I have yet to listen to. I normally am not really entertained but wow, it was refreshing to say the least!
Stella – SOUTHWEST ISD (verified owner) –
I wouldn’t change a thing.
Tiffany – CONROE ISD (verified owner) –
I think the content was great and would love to get more details on making this work in a math classroom specifically. I do think for the online course though there were a lot of reflective questions that in person they were able to collaborate whereas I was not making it more difficult and not as enjoyable as the other courses I’ve taken on here.
Griselda C. – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Great overview on grading when implementing differentiation
LAURA – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
great!
Lauren – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Informative
Whitney – HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
great
Ann – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
This course makes you consider your current grading practices.
John – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Whoo. This presentation represented a regurgitation of old ideas with almost no practical suggestions for how those ideas may be implemented in actual classrooms. The presenters expected the participants to provide practical examples, which is not what participants come to this kind of presentation for — that is for a roundtable, not a presentation. Not good.
Rosemary – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the course because grades are emphasized so much.
Angela – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of good info on differentiational grading.
Marie – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting but need further clarification on the recommended grading system
Sandra – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
I liked this course as it is precisely relevant to what and how I teach.
Sandra – DEL VALLE ISD (verified owner) –
I got some good ideas.
Lorena – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
very interesting
Danielle – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Good ideas for grading students in a differentiated environment
Teena – FLOUR BLUFF ISD (verified owner) –
Good class
Lott – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Very well organized. A course I’ll actually use!
Sandra – MARIETTA CITY (verified owner) –
Not as practical as I would’ve liked. Presenters were okay, but there wasn’t much “meat” to this class.
Abigail – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Great information for any teacher/school/district thinking of switching to standards-based grading.
Courtney – ELYRIA CITY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
I would like a session where more ideas to create lessons are discussed.
Kristi – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
It was very helpful!
Claudia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Very helpful to understand grading and unconditional teaching,
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting point of view of how to evaluate student mastery.
Jessica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course let you look at all factor for grading.
Sylvia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course that gives you a different view of grading.
Cindy – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting information
Ernestina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Grades do not show how much a student knows or does not know
Leticia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It provides a different approach to our current grading system.
Roger – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
A few helpful practical ideas, but in general poor. The focus on “mastery” is not useful for at least two reasons: one, it neglects the fact that learning that does not reach “mastery” can be useful; two, most really meaningful concepts and skills do not have a clear standard for “mastery” or not (cf. studies of expertise). Most of this course does not adequately take into consideration the cognitive science of learning or the realities of many schools.
Brian – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
They did a solid job of presenting the reward for the potential of using a mastery grading system in conjunction with differentiated instruction. I would have liked to see a more specific handling of what mastery standards might look like. Practically most teachers have more than a handful of standards and most learning involves multiple standards working interchangeable which they did not address.
Cynthia – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Good ideas
Johnathan – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
The course is well done. I am not in total agreeance with all of the grading strategies in preparing students for college or the “real world”. Grading practice to some extent allows students to enrich themselves and gives them to deserved calculation for the work they have put in. It also shows student accountability, time management/budgeting time, and responsibility for doing the necessary steps to master or even work beyond mastery.
Michele – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Outstanding! Very helpful. I will change my some of my instructional practices b/c of this experience.
Diana – Northern Local Schools (verified owner) –
Excellent
Joyce – New Lexington City Schools (verified owner) –
It gives you a lot to think about.
Katie – MARION CITY (verified owner) –
Great take aways for my own classroom!
Kim – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
It was very thought provoking.
Lauren – WORTHINGTON CITY (verified owner) –
Some practical applications were helpful, some were not for my high school AP course setting.
Alice – CARLISLE LOCAL (verified owner) –
5 stars
very informative