Chapter 14: Responsive Report Card Formats

This chapter talks about report card formats and what to do when you have differentiated instruction and the student has shown mastery but has not mastered all of the material. The grade to report is the one that shows that the student mastered what was asked of them to master, the adjusted curriculum grade. That does not compare to the other students in the class who have mastered the whole curriculum. This creates a problem because those grades do not mean the same thing even thought they are the same letter. The solution is to make a note on the report card to let parents and other teachers know that the curriculum was adjusted. This can be done with an asterisk and a note put in the student’s file. A way to show regular curriculum students’ personal growth and achievement would be to put both a letter and a number in the report card column. The A would show mastery of the material but an accompanying number such as a 3 would show an extensive amount of personal growth in the student’s knowledge. This documents exactly the achievement of the student throughout the course of the year. This affects me as a teacher by giving me the idea of a number and a letter grade. I remember earning A’s in classes when I know I did not grow. The A was easy and I was bored. This system will help me find that problem with students I will have in the future. This affects my students because I will not only know the level of their mastery but also how much their knowledge is growing.