January+27

Creating Standards Based Report Cards for ASM’s Lower School – January 27, 2011 Questions to consider: Work to begin today: Create a report card that shows:
 * 1) What is the purpose of a report card/ our report card?
 * 2) What information will be communicated in our report card?
 * 3) Who is the primary audience for that information?
 * 4) Do we want to grade students on their progress towards meeting selected year long benchmarks or do we want to have specific benchmarks or expectations for each of the marking periods?
 * 5) On the report cards, do we want the standard/benchmark descriptions to be the same for all grades or should they be different for each grade? (If they are the same for different grade levels then we need to create separate documents or pull down lists of specific grade level benchmarks for that standard.)
 * Purpose Statement
 * Goals
 * Achievement of grade level standards (Aero) and accompanying benchmarks (which have not been created yet except in mathematics).
 * Progress towards benchmarks and standards
 * How a student engages (or doesn’t) in the process of learning and what attitudes s/he has developed, including the attributes of our Lower School Vision.