Assessment, Grades, & Performance Feedback Grades are a form of feedback and are most effective when linked to clear success criteria that are understood by the student, teacher, and families. The learning goals and your child’s progress towards those goals should never be mysterious. When questions or concerns arise, please do not hesitate to contact me. Working together we can ensure the greatest learning for your child!
Poudre School District uses a percentage-letter based grading system beginning in 4th grade. These letter grades serve as benchmarks that tell us how well a student performs. I think about grades in terms of descriptions of the student’s performance against a set of success criteria. Each grading period will focus on a selection of the 4th grade standards. I will examine each child’s performance on varied tasks against the success criteria for those standards. We can then clearly see what your child can do and where we go next. Final grades will reflect the student’s growth and consistent performance over the grading period on the specified standards. Low scores will be dropped in favor of scores that show the child’s true ability after learning. |