6Traits Digest #187 - Wednesday, June 7, 2000 Re: 6Traits- Fwd: Six Traits Report Card byRe: 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 Right now, our report cards are so outdated it isn't even funny.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