Sunday, March 25, 2007

chapter 8

After talking with my fellow group members, we have all come to a decision on where we stand concerning this chapter on grading. We all reported just about the exact same thing concerning grading and the things in a classroom that effect grading. The chapter went into detail about three things that effect grading and they are: the effort of a student, the behavior of students, and the attendance of the students. These three things effect learning and education in the classroom in a great way and they are all possible problems that teachers will have to face on a daily basis. this chapter mentions what can happen when these three things come into play and we as a group thought that the chapter does a good job in providing or implying possible solutions to these three things.

As part of society most of us take pride in getting good grades and we like the feeling that we get when we have done so. Some students don't always get good grades and that may not be just their fault. It could have something to do with the classroom atmosphere or maybe it could be things that the students could do themselves to help their grades. An example of something that a student could do ion their own to help themselves would be showing up to class on time and participating in the class. From past experience everyone in my group has reported that well behaved studious students do better and most people would say the same thing. When a student does their homework or shows up to class and is serious they tend to get a better grade. Students that don't exhibit these good qualities have a problem with learning and education. My group has come to an agreement that well behaved and good studious students produce good grades but, that doesn't mean that a not so much behaved students couldn't be successful either. We feel that students who do good want the constant reward and those who don't get a reward don't try as hard. We feel that is true most of the time but, not all of the time. Some students do good work and don't care about reward. The group agrees that reward leads to motivation which then leads to good grades. The factors of disruptive students can also effect learning for good students if it is not handled in a classroom and we think that as teachers we need to take charge. We want to push students to their fullest potential and we want them all to get good grades in the end. We all have seen several cases like this before but, we think that we can get every student to get on track and get good grades. We want to eliminate hose three factors from learning so that every student wants to and can succeed!

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