Re: portfolio pieces from math class
Posted by anon on 12/21/02
Math teachers at our school are exempt from providing
portfolio pieces per instructions from our English
Department. They realize that high scoring portfolio prompts
are not effective in math classes. The head of our Math
Department contacted our Region Service Center to get
examples of high-scoring math portfolio pieces -- they could
not provide ANY examples. Also, a former Writing Consultant
from KDE stated in an in-service that math pieces would not
score well and time would be better spent covering math
content.
I think your department would be well served to try to be
exempt from this requirement. Difficult, I know, but why
waste time going through motions to produce a piece that does
not meet the requirements of a high scoring piece? I am not
a math teacher. I can produce a reasonable portfolio piece
in my content area. I think all content areas can except
math. Given the requirements for tone and voice, I do not
understand why math pieces would be appropriate.
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- portfolio pieces from math class, 12/07/02, by mac.
- Re: portfolio pieces from math class, 12/21/02, by anon.
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