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.…
Help! How Much is Too Much?
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.…
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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