Daily #TeachingChallenges – Issue 1: Grades

I’m sick of grades. Here’s why and here’s what I do and what I would do. This is the first part of a series of posts where I look at aspects of my professional life which I find difficult to correlate with my beliefs and principles.…

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Just finished undermining my students learning

So another semester is finished and I submitted my grades. not sure if that is a good thing or not. My biggest quandary is what to do with a student that earned a B+ on his final worked on the collaborative exams but turned in very little class or home work.…

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Help! How Much is Too Much?

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The Situation

I’m blogging with three different music performance classes. Band I  – an entry level high school performance class, Band II for our more experienced high school musicians, and Jazz Ensemble – which is sort of a Band III and it’s reserved only for students who can pass an audition and are very serious about music and music performance.…

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How to Save Time Developing Rubrics

Rubrics are an excellent platform for outlining grading criteria because they accomplish two purposes: They allow instructors to grade consistently and objectively. They allow students to understand what constitutes an excellent score and exactly how to get one. But developing a thorough rubric can be time consuming—time that we seem to have less and less […]

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