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Today was progress reports! Since the students switch for certain classes it was only math and science (his homeroom class also had language arts.) This is a sixth grade class, and there are many students who have attitudes, (some starting this year and some coming into sixth grade with them.) Regardless, these students do not always turn their work in. Progress reports did not include participation, but were based solely off the work they had turned in. The average in the classes was in the C/low B range. On the progress reports also included all of the work they were missing. I think this is a positive way to assess the students because the participation will help their grades, (for most.) When they see the low grades, they instantly run up to their teacher’s desk asking what they can do in order to raise their grades. It shows them how important it is to get their work done. Luckily for them, their teacher accepts all late work and if a grade is low they have the option to redo it. I feel this enforces learning until they understand it, and reduces the chances of them from being discouraged from a bad grade. Progress reports are not trying to trick them with these low grades, their teacher will repeated tell them that this is based strictly off the work they have already passed in and that there is still more work to complete for the end of the year.

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