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On Grades: A Teacher's Perspective
Category: Education
Duration: 00:32:54
Publish Date: 2023-12-11 20:28:00
Description:

In a HeightsCast episode released a few months ago, headmaster Alvaro de Vicente offered guidance for parents on how to understand, interpret, and respond to their sons’ grades, while also nurturing strong and lasting bonds. This week, we welcome Tom Steenson to HeightsCast to discuss grading from the teacher’s perspective.

In this week’s episode, Tom offers practical advice to teachers, framing grades as a means to helping students learn. He considers how to approach grading students whether they are relatively strong in a particular subject or struggling through a class. Approaching grading more as an art than a strict science, Mr. Steenson encourages teachers to remain realistic without crushing a student and to challenge students to think beyond the grade, helping them find a real joy in learning. 

Chapters 

  • 2:10 Introduction: Grading from a teacher’s perspective
  • 3:00 How should teacher’s think about grades?
  • 5:05 Practical advice for how to deal with a strong student with respect to his grades? 
  • 7:45 Should you grade different students differently?
  • 10:53 How to deal with the kids who are hyper focused on the grade? The grade-monger…
  • 14:20 Online gradebooks? 
  • 16:20 Practical advice for students struggling with grades
  • 20:00 How to grade fairly and honestly, without crushing the student? 
  • 21:45 Advice for the art of grading 
  • 28:10 Closing thoughts 

Mentioned in the episode

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
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