"Direct and specific feedback from the teacher helps kids much more than grades.
'If instead of grades we just had a paper from the teacher telling us how we are doing, we would want more to go back and do it better. -Porsche'
'You don't need to have grades to want to work harder. If my teachers told me how I was doing without my grades, I would pay attention to it...' -Veronica"
I know that realistically this may not work, but I would rather have parent teacher conferences and only evaluations at the middle and end of a semester. I have seen this work because where I worked over the summer it was how they did things. Gifted and Talented students who were going into 6th and 7th grade were taking college level classes during their summer break with Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. The students (who were normally very focused on grades during the school year), got to participate, explore, and experience the content without all the pressure. As long as the students behaved, participated, and understood the material at the end, they would have successfully completed the course, and I wish that system could be applied to a regular school setting.
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