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Montville Township Public Schools Elementary Report Cards. Informational Parent Meeting Cedar Hill School October 22, 2013. What is a report card?. The term “report card" is used to describe any systematic listing and evaluation of something for information.
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Montville Township Public Schools Elementary Report Cards Informational Parent Meeting Cedar Hill School October 22, 2013
What is a report card? • The term “report card" is used to describe any systematic listing and evaluation of something for information.
What information does a report card traditionally provide for parents and children? • A typical report card communicates the quality of a student’s work.
Is that all it reports? • Today's student report cards go way beyond the simple letter grades. • In the past, our schools sent home accounts of each subject's content, student progress, social behavior, work habits, learning skills, and more.
But now we have the Common Core State Standards • And that means we need to rethink the amount and detail of information we provide to parents about the progress of their child in meeting the standards by the end of the grade.
What is a standards-based report card? • A standards-based report card lists the most important skills students should learn in each subject at a particular grade level.
How are standards-based report cards different from traditional report cards? • On many traditional report cards, students receive one grade for reading, one for math, one for science and so on. • On a standards-based report card, each of these subject areas is divided into a list of skills and knowledge that students are responsible for learning. • Students receive a separate mark for each standard.
Letter Grade Report Cards • Letter grades are calculated by combining how well the student met his/her particular teacher's expectations, how s/he performed on assignments and tests, and how much effort the teacher believes s/he put in. • Letter grades do not tell parents which skills their children have mastered or whether they are working at grade level. • Example: Because one fourth-grade teacher might be reviewing basic multiplication facts, while another is teaching multiplication of two- or three-digit numbers, getting an A in each of these classes would mean very different things. The parent of a child in these classes would not know if the child were learning what he should be to meet the state standards.
Standards-Based Report Cards • Standards-based report cards provide more consistency between teachers than traditional report cards, because all students are evaluated on the same grade-appropriate skills. • Parents can see exactly which skills and knowledge their children have learned. • The marks on a standards-based report card show only how well the child has mastered the grade-level standards, and do not include effort, attitude or work habits, which are usually marked separately.
Combining The Two • Effort (Grade K-5) • Standard (Grade K-5) • Letter Grade (Grade 3-5)
SPECIAL EDUCATION CONSIDERATIONS • Goals and Objectives as per IEPs • Grades include modifications and accommodations • Comments explain child’s progress toward meeting the standard.
Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5
