![]() ![]() Level four is not required for all students to master. This is the exact content and skills that they need to master before end-of-year testing.Ĥ. Number three is always going to be the learning goal for your students at grade level. This is a great starting place to assess their previous knowledge when you introduce a new topic.ģ. Level three is the grade level standard.* I always like to change the wording of the standard into kid-friendly language that students are going to understand. While they might not have mastered the content from previous grade levels, you know for sure they’ve seen it before. You know what they come in having been exposed to. They have some knowledge from the previous grade level. Level two is where most of your students my fall. These students typically start below their grade-level peers and need a lot of concrete support to understand concepts.Ģ. They may have special needs or require special learning modifications. Level one is going to be for students who are very on the low end of the learning or performance spectrum. After a few examples, you and your students will know how to interpret the levels of a scale to indicate progress.ġ. So when you create a scale, you are showing students what they’re learning and you are helping them connect prior knowledge to the current expectations, maybe even above. Everybody knows what learning goals are, but usually students never see them. Scales are just a way to break your learning goal into easier steps for students. If your school advocates a growth mindset, standards based grading, or the Marzano framework, this post is for you. They found that among the variety of teaching strategies that help students succeed, tracking student progress by scoring scales was the most effective! Since then schools have been figuring out how to align scales to the traditional grading model. Proficiency Scales became mandatory in many school districts after some research published in 2009 by Marzano and Hasted. Many school districts have switched to using proficiency scales for grading. Grading with proficiency scales doesn’t have to be confusing, if you know what each level MEANS. ![]()
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