6Traits Digest #187 - Wednesday, June 7, 2000

  Re: 6Traits- Fwd: Six Traits Report Card
          by 
  Re: 6Traits- Fwd: Six Traits Report Card
          by "Julia Poor" 
  Re: Grades
          by "Sandra McCoy" 


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Subject: Re: 6Traits- Fwd: Six Traits Report Card
From: 
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 08:26:08 EDT


In a message dated 6/6/00 7:24:43 PM, susan@desertskyone.com writes:

<< This question came to me from our web host.  His wife teaches in =
northern 
Arizona.  I've given him my opinion, and now am soliciting information =
from 
the list.  Are any of you doing the rubrics as part of the report 
card?  Are any of you required to assign grades based on the rubrics? >>

I work in Denver and Denver Public Schools (DPS) and my school does and 
alternate report card which does include the 6 trait rubric....not so much =
as 
a grade but just as the rubric.....I haven't been here long enough to hear =

anything from the parents, but I know it's on the report card.....

David
Denver

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Subject: Re: 6Traits- Fwd: Six Traits Report Card
From: "Julia Poor" 
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:12:42 -0500

 I make a rubric for each writing assignment so the kids will know
what is expected of them.
I think this also makes it a lot easier to grade writing assignments.
I try to model each one
of the things I expect the kids to be able to do when I have my
mini-lesson.

I use the six-traits rubric as a base and this coming year I will be
sending the six-traits rubric
home to parents at the beginning of the year so they will know what
I'm doing.

Right now, our report cards are so outdated it isn't even funny.  We
have a place for spelling, which
we don't teach as a separate subject, and the creative writing is
lumped under language.  We also
have social studies as a separate subject, and that is taught in
conjunction with reading/language.

I teach third grade.
Julia, in Indiana


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Subject: Re: Grades
From: "Sandra McCoy" 
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 10:29:57 -0600



> Are any of you doing the rubrics as part of the report 
> card?  Are any of you required to assign grades based on the rubrics?


Our school uses the Work Sampling System instead of report cards.  This
system requires that you use a mixture of documented observations, =
portfolio
samples, and checklists.  Three times a year, we meet with parents, go =
over
the information we have collected, give them a written narrative report
which assesses their child based on progress through a rubric style
checklist.  It's a lot of work, but I never give a letter or numerical
grade.  The closest I come is on math papers.  I show their score as a
fraction with the numerator being how many they answered correctly and the
denominator being the total possible.  However, the checklist for math
domain includes things you can only evaluate by observation, by reading
their math log, or having the children write their own math situation word
problems.

The Language Arts Domain includes writing and incorporates 6 traits style
skills.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
End of 6Traits Digest

--
To unsubscribe, send any message at all to:
6Traits-off@.
Archive of past digests is at:
http://6Traits.Cyberspaces.net/archive/?_NO_DATETIME