How do I keep grades?
Question: How do I keep grades?
Answer: My opinion on grades are a little different. It is not
that I am against giving grades, but I just handle it differently. When
my children did their work, they would hand it to me to correct. I
would then correct it, mark the ones that were wrong and then I would
hand it back for them to correct. By the time they finished correcting
their paper, then it was 100% correct. So I felt that it was pointless
to keep grades. I felt that it was more important for them to learn
from their mistakes, than to keep grades. Curriculum builds on
previously taught concepts, so if a child does not understand
something, then I feel it is important for them to learn it, rather
than hold them to what they did the first time through. Most of the
time, when my children got something wrong, it was because of a hasty
error. So when they took a second look, they knew immediately what they
did wrong. So it was always a learning process for them.
If you
still feel that keeping grades are important, then this is how you go
about it. If for instance there were 10 problems for the lesson. Your
child misses 2, multiply that number by 10 which makes 20 and subtract
it from 100 and you will get 80%. So your grading may go something like
this, 100-90%=A, 89-80%=B, 79-65%=C, below that would be a D and F. Now
for each subject you would add up the grades like this: give a point
value of 4 points=A, 3 points=B, 2 points=C, 1 point=D, & 0
point=F. Add all the points together and divide them by the number of
letter grades given for that subject and that will give you the point
value of the letter grade earned. So for example, if your student got 5
A's, 6 B's, & 2 C's in math for the quarter, then your would add up
the point values for each grade given in math like this: 20 points
=A's, 18 points=B's, & 4 points=C's. 20+18+4=42 total points
divided by 13 (5As+6Bs+2Cs=13) total grades given= 3.2 which would be a
B average grade for the quarter. That is how I would do the grades, if
I were to keep grades. Personally, I let the SAT test scores be my
report card as to how my kids were doing academically. But you do what
you think is best. Keeping grades are fine, but allow the children to
learn from their mistakes. That will make them a better student.
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