It is quarter to one in the morning and here I am....posting on what looks like a long forgotten blog. The reality is I think about this blog and all that I am learning about standards based grading every day.
I am doing it!
Not perfectly...but I am making strides forward. I strongly believe like so many have said that you just have to jump off that cliff entirely. There is no having one foot on land and one foot in the boat. Today afterschool I had three students working on a project that assessed their understanding of general genetics. It was due sometime after Thanksgiving... it is now after New Years. Yet there they were working to get it done and turn it in. While working, one student asked me "How much will you be marking this down because it is late?" I replied that it would not be marked down at all and that the important thing is that he is able to show me what he knows. He responded by telling me about a large project he had completed quite late for geography and how after finishing the project and being proud getting it done after procrastinating the teacher informed him that he still earned a failing grade on it because it was late. My heart sank. I have been that teacher before... Not anymore!
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