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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Wonder what Alberta teachers think of the new rules for public elementary schools in BC. Students will no longer get letter grades:
“It’s definitely time for a change (as) letter grades were a vestige of industrial society,” Brar told Global News.
“It’s a strength-based perspective where everyone is on the spectrum.”
The change has garnered a lot of attention online, with parents reacting to the news that only students in grades 10, 11 and 12 will receive letter grades and percentages.
Instead of letter grades, students will be assessed as “emerging, developing, proficient and extending.”
I challenge anyone to explain the difference between emerging and developing.
And extending? What the hell?
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That just sounds like what Alberta uses for K-6 just being slightly less negative at the bottom.
Exceeds expectations, above expectations, meets expectations and not yet meeting expectations. It’s still a 4 letter grade system.
Without looking it up I’d suspect emerging is along the lines of The student exhibits the initial skills to perform this task but has not demonstrated the skills to do the entire task. Essentially they are behind grade level but show the initial signs of getting it.
Then developing is the student has demonstrated the skills to perform the task but is still learning to apply the skills independently.
Proficiently is being able to perform the task at grade level.
Extending is being able to apply the knowledge of the skill learned to a wide variety of different problems.
It’s also still letter grades. EM, DE, Pr, Ex as the space in the report card likely will only take a few digits.
I always laugh when people get mad at this type of thing as 4 categories of development level is far better than communicating % if your goal is to understand how your child is doing.
Now in terms of knowing my kid is better than your kid the percents come in handy.