Walking Through Standards Based Grading: Part 2

I'm back for part 2 of this standards based grading journey! For those of you interested in the what or part 1 of this blog series, click HERE to check it out and click here to read part 3.

Thank you to all of my fabulous readers for your insight and comments. It means so much! I do hope these posts help some of you in some small way!

For this next post, I am going to break down the why of standards based grading.

Since we are all super familiar with the traditional style of grading, many teachers have asked why we should implement standards based grading. Hopefully I can shed some light...

To break it down, standards based grading helps teachers do three big things: 

Let's start with the first one, establish learning goals: 

*I will cover more of the above information in my next blog post about how to implement standards based grading.

Next, standards based grading helps teachers create or use clear assessments:

*My assessments will help those that are already in standards based grading, are just starting out with standards based grading, or are not using it at all. I have created these assessments to help EVERY SINGLE teacher, no matter their style. Click HERE to check them out.

Lastly, standards based grading helps teachers give quality feedback to both parents and students (my favorite part):

Stay tuned for the next post!

Don't forget about part 1! Below is a snapshot from part 1 that can be found HERE!

You can now check out part 3 here, and grab all of this info in a HUGE freebie! 

For those of you interested in how I track data and use my standards based assessments in my classroom, use the labels found on the side of my blog (Data Binders and Assessments) to read all of my blog posts!  

I appreciate any and all of your thoughts and comments! Thanks for reading!