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Elimination of C, D, and F grades. Possibility or fantasy? Old 06-11-2011, 10:01 AM

Clip to ScrapBook #1 I am in a group taking a college course entitled Making Learning Meaningful, Every Student Can Succeed. It is based on the beliefs and books of Dr. William Glasser. He believes in Choice Theory and the concept of the only person you can control is yourself. He believes that in education that schools should eliminate C, D, and F grades. Students should only be given credit for competent and quality work (B, A, A+). He believes almost all students are capable of performing at this level. The alternative to giving these lower grades of C, D, and F, is to keep giving back work to be student corrected until they reach a competent level. In order to complete this assignment, we need teacher input on how they think this would or does work in their classroom and school.

What grading system do you use now?

Do you think eliminating C, D, and F grades is feasible in ...See More
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Early Birdy When is the last time your boss was content for you to turn in any old product because he/she had the patience to ask you to do something over and over again? What message does this send to any human being...allow yourself to do something poorly because you have all the time in the world to redo it and get it right? Learning occurs within boundarie...See More
Sep 13, 2011
Maureen Why don't we just gift our students with an A for every paper they hand in regardless of the content and quality? Also, how about some extra credit for the student who had his feelings hurt while working on his paper? How about a trophy for the student who took longest to complete his paper since he had less free time than the others. I could go on...See More
May 26, 2012
teach4 I agree with all above!!
Mar 12, 2013
Important to consider the responsible, on-task students too On 3/12/13, teach4 wrote: > I agree with all above!!

Yeah, ok, so I give the kid a second, third, or thirteenth chance to redo the work he or she should have buckled down, paid attention, and done his best on the FIRST time.

Meanwhile, all the students who did what they were supposed to do, and got good grades the FIRST time, h...See More
Mar 12, 2013
I would like to say.. You can give students bad grades and not be hated. I taught English in Ecuador and they grade with numbers from 0-20. My average (other than my pre-school students) was about 14/20--or 70%. (I called exactly 50/100 "10" but 50.5/100 "over ten..so 11", so my real average was lower than that.) In my senior class I had an average of less than 12/20-- ...See More
Oct 3, 2013


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