behavior is very important and students behavior often needs to be monitored. The principal of my school is considering whether or not eight grade students should be graded not only on academics but also on their behavioral performance. Of course grading students on behavior is a superb idea because it is a fantastic way for parents to determine how their children actitute is like while they are not present, students grades and behavior will also improve is they know that they are being graded on behavior. Overall it is a splendid and beneficial idea to grade students on behavior it should absolutely be done.
Not only should students be graded on academics but also on behavior, when students behavior is being graded parents reciev a report of how their children are acting while they are not present. if students behavior is not being graded parents must solely go by what the child is telling them, the child could easily be lying to them or keeping information about what occured to themselves. now parents would have a full report not just a few letters and short comments about how their child is behaving.parents are not always informed about what is happening behing closed doors of the school it would be fantastic for them to have something else to refere to for this information. the parents will know how students truely are acting not just if they are intellegent and can make amazing grades all year. if parents see behavior problems that studnts otherwise keep hidden in a report, then they will be able to help and work with them on improving. it is important and necessary for parents to be aware of their childs behavior in school, grading students on behavior is the perfect way to keep parents informed. furthermore, if students are aware that they are being graded on behavior this will influence them to improve their behavior. many students will not pass up the oppurtinity to recieve an eassy grade. when students are repremanded after misbehavior they often try to find excuses and escape punishment (some do). when behavior is graded there would be no escape, that would be like getting crettid for incomplete work. just like students must learn and complete assignments students must learn to behave. many students who did not previously behave will beging to inorder to avoid disapointing and being repremanded by their parents when they recive their childs behavior reports.
I would properly do an assessment in the classroom to see if the behavior is observable and measurable. If the student is giving a “bad attitude” because of an assignment, then I could design a reinforcement schedule to alter the “bad attitude” to a “good attitude.” If the student completes the assignment in the classroom, then the student will be rewarded with a token for the “good attitude.”
In “What is a Grade” by Pat Belanoff, she explains the pros and cons of the grading system. In Pats ' essay she states “Perhaps the solution would to abandon grading altogether in writing class. I confess that this a solution that appeals to me greatly.” (151). Grades should not be present in the way we test students’ learning ability. School seems to be more about learning the material for a brief moment just to get a good grade rather then to actually learn and think about the information being presented.
Colleges in America grade students academically for successful careers. For years students grades were calculate by an alphabetic/numeric grade scale. Today colleges are questioning whether grades should be determined by continuing to use a grade scale or switch to a pass/fail scale. Although, there were numerous of factors both positive and negative about a pass/fail system to take into consideration before making a decision. I feel that colleges in America should continue to use a grade scale to convey to students that grades have consequences, open doors to opportunity, and alleviates perturbation.
One argument in favor of peer grading is that it offers a student feedback on minor lessons, and it allows teachers to focus on curriculum, creativity, and grading major tests and papers (Grading). However, some psychologists view the practice of grading work in class as potentially damaging to students' self-esteem. Some students may be teased for getting good grades, or those who struggle in class work may also be ridiculed (Grading). Regardless of the grading practice, students are going to be teased by their peers. ...
This new grading scale is more to a help at raising scoring and funding than allowing students to learn the information in a way that will be reliable in the future. The no zero grading policy may allow students to pass, it may even encourage them to continue to stay in school, but it is not helping the children to be successful in society. Are colleges excepting this new grading scale? As most colleges except a new student for their grades and work ethics. With this policy schools are only motivating students to come to school for the knowledge that they will pass. The policy is not motivating them to get good grades so that they can get in to a good college to have good career. To stop students from giving up and dropping out, the schools need to see them as individual not as a group of elementary, middle school and high school
Williams it’s very busy with learning stuff everywhere. The classroom has different section called ‘centers’ like the library. In the middle is where the desk are placed they are grouped into 5-6 student at each table. I immediately noticed some negative behavior management on the part of the teacher by yelling at the students that wasn’t listening to her instructions. Another behavior management tool that doesn’t seems to work completely well was the point system that give or take a point from any student based on their behavior or action throughout the day. Most students seem to not be so thrilled or fazed by losing a point or when they gained one. But the teacher used this system quite frequent to make her point and take action. An action taking by the teacher that I felt was problematic is when she questioned a student that was better behaved, if another student was misbehaving. This action could lead to negative behavior for child-child interaction and
In conclusion, I believe that the grade system is important to the success of the students so can know where they stand in a course as far as grades are concern, and they are able to motivate themselves to light their grades up higher than before as well as the Instructors can see where students need help and they can play an important role in a students career as far as them knowing what areas they need assisting in so they might succeed.
I can guarantee that punishment is not the answer. Punishment is a suggestion made by reformers (Postman, 311), but it is the absolute worst decision that can be made in our schools. When students get out of school suspension (OSS), they treat it as a vacation day and most of them use it to play video games, and they still get to make up the work they missed. A countless amount of kids in my high school did exactly that. On another side of that, punishment is giving a student attention. Not a great kind of attention, but attention nonetheless. If a student really wants attention, it won’t matter to them what kind. If something is awry in the classroom, it should be ignored. Usually in situations where students are causing a disturbance, it is because they crave the attention. Punishing them is falling right into their
Even though in the article it says that it “may disrupt the learning environment for other students” I still believe they should be given more chances since maybe at home they have no one so they don't really know between right and wrong. Schools should find a way to discipline them better so they will not interrupt or disrupt other students while learning and still get their education and not fall behind grades wise. If people fall behind it is pretty difficult to catch up and to get back on track since people are learning new things everyday it's hard to learn what you miss and learn what they are teaching today. Schools should maybe put them in detention or make them do community service on weekends so that way kids will not fall behind academically and still be in
One change institutions should make to the grading system is to eliminate all factors that have noting to do with learning outcomes from affecting the students’ grade. According to the article, “Assessment of Learning Outcomes: What’s the difference?” written by Carnegie Mellon University, grades are often based on more than learning outcomes. Instructors usually include factors unrelated to learning outcomes such as attendance to class, participation, improvement and in some cases, grades are boosted a bit due to how hard the student is working.” These factors are
The current grading system should be upgraded, and every school should incorporate the plus/minus system in their method of grading. Public high schools began a grading system as a way of telling an individual how they were performing. There was no interest by the public in reporting the school’s progress in teaching. Teachers, in an effort to recognize outstanding performers, looked for a way of rewarding hard-working students for their efforts. The grading structure changed from superior and excellent to A’s and B’s.
The utilization of positive reinforcement is a possible technique for enhancing students’ behavior for a variety of school conditions for individual and as well as for the group of students (Wheatley, et al., 2009).
Students are unique individuals, and each one learns differently. As Patterson remarks, “When grading students, in the name of
In the real world, you do earn rewards for your accomplishments and achievements. For instance, a college student who earns all A’s will be rewarded by being placed on the Dean’s list. On the other hand, a college student may not be proactive, self-controlled, or responsible and make D’s and F’s leads to the consequence of having a low GPA and retaking classes. Credit should most definitely be given when it is due. A part of motivation is encouragement in telling students how well they accomplished any task and sometimes rewarding the entire class for all good things and effort they put forth. My ultimate goal for my Classroom Management Plan is to model self-discipline by teaching it through my daily actions so that students may be able to self-manage themselves accordingly. The purpose of middle school is to prepare adolescence to become young adults, to help them to develop self-reflective skills that will benefit them in the future, so they can be that college student who aim high to make all A’s and respect themselves as individuals. I want my student to know themselves so they can learn how to handle themselves in all environments (school, home,
...ke school something that the students can look back on and think that it was a meaningful time where they learned a lot about life instead of a time where they thought they would have a break down because they got a low score on a test. School should be a time to make mistakes in a safe environment that they can learn from, not a place that they are petrified to make a mistake for fear of retribution on their grade cards. Its time to change the school system to save future students from becoming stress crazed and to let them know that there is more to this world than a grade card and in the long run it is a very small fraction of life.