EPISODE THIRTY-SEVEN
AGENT KATELYNN GIORDANO (GOING GRADELESS)
Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to engage and empower your students by going ‘gradeless’. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is sixth grade English and Social Studies teacher, Katelynn Giordano of Illinois.
In this episode we discuss:
· Katelynn’s evolving philosophy around grading
· What ‘no grades’ looks like in Katelynn’s classroom
· Shifting the grade-focused mindset in students and families
· Giving students ownership of their learning
· Some trouble-shooting for going gradeless:
o How do you generate a letter grade for a report card at the end of the year?
o What if a student is ‘meeting’ in one assignment and not another?
o What if the student is ‘exceeding’ expectations?
o How can this be integrated into a larger system?
· Some resources to look to for going gradeless:
o Katelynn’s folder of articles
· How to follow Katelynn on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn
Wondering how this might work during Covid?
· Katelynn’s latest post on teachbetter.com about “Grading in the New Normal”
· NPR’s 1A podcast “Making The Grade: How Should We Assess Students During A Pandemic?”
