Okay in my last post I said I would talk a little bit more on how me and my teaching partner are writing and grading assessments for our competencies so here goes. I have struggled a lot with how to define and assess competencies. There were so many questions. What is a competency? What is…… Continue reading Grading Competencies
When I was interviewing for my current position, I was provided with a copy of the school-wide grading policy and asked what I thought about it and what challenges I might foresee in adopting this grading policy in my class. Our school has adopted competency-based grading, similar but not the same as standards-based grading. Here…… Continue reading Our Take on Competency Based Grading
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