It is important to know how your child is performing in school. Academic achievement, as well as the development of social and emotional skills, all play a part in each child’s learning performance at school. It has always been a challenge for teachers to find an effective way to communicate this information to parents.
- We are using performance standards to communicate your child’s learning achievement at school (in Social Responsibility, Math, Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening). These criterion-based indicators provide an authentic assessment of student learning and progress, and are based on actual real-world performance and educational “best practice”. This information will appear in the usual anecdotal section for the applicable subjects in your child’s report.
- Rather than “A, B, C” we are using a graphic indicator to portray achievement, and for middle years students, work habits, as well. Learning is rarely so precisely quantifiable that we can accurately assign a percentage value to it; instead, it might be better described as being amorphous: stronger here, growing there, with the potential of benefiting from nurture, support, and stimulation in a variety of ways. Our new format gives parents a more authentic indication of whether their child is exceeding, meeting, approaching or not yet meeting grade level performance expectations for achievement.
- SD64 reports are now generated through a central data-base. This allows teachers and schools to better share and analyze information for the purposes of improving learning… for individual students, for groups of students, or for SD64 as a whole.
- The communication that parents in SD64 receive about their child’s learning and achievement will be authentically based on Performance Standards and consistent across the district in Grades 1 - 8, regardless of which school their child goes to.