This week, I welcome guest blogger Chaia from All Things Exceptional to the Letters and Ink Blog! She’s an awesome educator who has offered to share her expertise on how to reset classroom expectations because you KNOW our kiddos will need it after winter break! If you need some help setting expectations, be sure to check out this post: 5 Things To Do Before You Teach Content This Year. Here’s why and how to reset classroom expectations after a break: Routines and procedures need to be reexamined regularly to ensure that they are still beneficial to your classroom environment and students. Right before and sometimes during breaks, I reexamine ALL…
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It’s Not a Secret: Grading Homework is Harming Our Students
Colleagues, parents, and students are usually taken aback by the fact that I don’t assign grades for formative tasks like classwork or homework. There are so many reasons that assigning a letter or percentage grade is inequitable, unjust, and a poor practice. If you’re curious about more strategies for equitable grading, I encourage you to check out Grading for Equity, by Joe Feldman. This book started it all for me! Let me tell you why I stopped grading homework and what I do instead! First, I call it homework, but that can mean different things for different people! What I mean by “homework” is any classwork that is designed to…
