Description: This artifact displays my responsibility as a future educator during meetings with grade level.
Grade Level Meetings During this specific grade level meeting we discussed the new writing proficiency format for 5th grade students as well as the grading scale. Basically the new test will be on the computer students will be grade holistically which means all the traits students would be graded on separately are now put together in a 1 through 4 grading scale. Another issue was that students will have to conduct these essays on the computer when most don't have basic typing skills so some of those grammatical errors will occur because of that and they shouldn't get penalized for that either. As far as the writing prompts students will all have different generated prompt from opinion writing, persuasive writing, or narrative writing. There is no brainstorming allowed for students with teacher because of the new rules, but students are allowed to write a rough draft before writing their essays but teachers may not instruct them to do so. After we went over the basic knowledge we did some practice papers where we each read them and wanted to see if we graded them right based of the new grading scale. I feel like the new grading scale for writing is awesome, but my main issue is with the typing it on the computer because over my course of student teaching I have seen students struggle and make minor errors that wouldn't have occurred if it was written.
Grade Level Meetings
During this specific grade level meeting we discussed the new writing proficiency format for 5th grade students as well as the grading scale. Basically the new test will be on the computer students will be grade holistically which means all the traits students would be graded on separately are now put together in a 1 through 4 grading scale. Another issue was that students will have to conduct these essays on the computer when most don't have basic typing skills so some of those grammatical errors will occur because of that and they shouldn't get penalized for that either. As far as the writing prompts students will all have different generated prompt from opinion writing, persuasive writing, or narrative writing. There is no brainstorming allowed for students with teacher because of the new rules, but students are allowed to write a rough draft before writing their essays but teachers may not instruct them to do so. After we went over the basic knowledge we did some practice papers where we each read them and wanted to see if we graded them right based of the new grading scale. I feel like the new grading scale for writing is awesome, but my main issue is with the typing it on the computer because over my course of student teaching I have seen students struggle and make minor errors that wouldn't have occurred if it was written.
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