Making Homework Meaningful
Making Homework Meaningful If you have been following along, I have been discussing going "gradeless" in the classroom. This has included much more formalized formative assessment, reflection, and student ownership. One of the comments Joy Kirr made in a recent podcast (#tg2chat or Teacher's Going Gradeless ) was that it takes 10 positive comments to overcome 1 negative comment. I felt my students were hating the way in which I flipped the class on their heads because the vocal students were the ones who were sounding the horns for a mutiny. After asking for feedback, I found the vast majority liked the way class had changed and they regularly used the phrase that they felt they were "owning their own learning" With all that being said, we just finished our second test since that shift and the mean was an 85% and the median was an 87% (typical tests all year had been about 79%-80%) so this was great news. Very few students were surprised by their scores be...