SBG: An epiphany
July 4, 2010 – 5:25 pm | One Comment

So I’ll be the first to admit that because of my wide variety of classes taught, my marking has been somewhat schizophrenic.  I don’t generally mark the same way in CPT as I do in History, French or Science, and each class lends itself to specific ways of gathering marks.  Readers will note that I [...]

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Great idea!

Submitted by Ian Hecht on August 29, 2008 – 3:16 pmNo Comment

Mark Pullen over at The Elementary Educator has pulled together a Student Bill of Rights that he says is in response to many teachers’ beginning of the year laying-down-of-the-law.  It’s a great idea that has some excellent social studies tie-ins: what does every student’s right to be safe through the day mean for student interaction?  I don’t agree with everything on the list, but it’s a fantastic starting point to generate some discussion of classroom dynamics.

5.  All students have the right to be taught by someone who is not reading from a script.

6.  All students have the right to be assessed based on improvement, not just raw performance.

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