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Facilitating the Change to Standards-Based Grading and Reporting:
Moving from Individual to Shared Practice
By Ken O'Connor
17th - 18th October 2016, Vienna

Overview:
  I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are what and why and when
And How and Where and Who.

(The opening to the poem accompanying the tale of "The Elephant's Child" by Rudyard Kipling in his "Just So Stories," 1902)

Over the last ten years teachers have been using standards as the base to link an increasingly broad range of assessment approaches with their teaching to improve learning. In many schools there has, however, been very little change in grading and reporting practices. Grading has frequently remained an individual practice resulting in students achieving at the same level receiving very different grades.

Schools need to move grading from being based on personal preference to a shared practice by developing school grading and reporting policies that will lead to grades being accurate, consistent, meaningful and supportive of learning.

The session will consider the why, what, who, how, where and when of changing to standards-based grading and reporting.
 
  • Why does it need to happen?
  • What changes need to be made?
  • Who should be involved?
  • How should it happen?
  • When should the changes be made?
  • Where should it take place?
  After establishing why changes need to be made the focus will be on what guidelines could be used as the base for change. Emphasis will be placed on fifteen fixes for broken grades, fixes that will make grades accurate, meaningful, consistent and supportive of learning. Each fix will be introduced and then there will be opportunities for discussion of the implications of each fix for their school. Guidelines for standards-based reporting will also be provided. Examples of how schools have proceeded in making these changes and who was involved will be presented. This will be followed by consideration of timelines for implementation to establish when and where the changes should be made.
 
Participant Outcomes:
   

Participants will: -
  1. Recognize the need to critically examine and change traditional grading practices;
  2. Appreciate the complexity of grading;
  3. Identify the purposes of grading;
  4. Understand that grading must move from a private to a shared practice;
  5. Consider fifteen fixes for broken grades and the implications of these fixes for their school;
  6. Analyze the value of eleven guidelines for expanded format standards-based reporting and the implications of these guidelines for their school;
  7. Discuss examples of how schools have made changes in grading and reporting
  8. Decide on a draft action plan for their school.
   
Potential Audience
   
  All K-12 Educators.
   
Investment:
   
  USD 750/- Closing date 10th October 2016
Venue:
   
  The American International School • Vienna
Salmannsdorfer Strasse 47
A-1190 Vienna, Austria
   
Timings:
   
  8.30 am to 3.30 pm
Registration at 8.00 am on the 17th October 2016.
   
Contact:
  Shonal Agarwal
CEO
Email: shonal@chaptersinternational.com
chaptersinternational@gmail.com

Website: www.chaptersinternational.com
 
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