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No Report Card? No Problem: A Different Rubric for Measuring Growth

No Report Card? No Problem: A Different Rubric for Measuring Growth

by OnlySchoolers · May 7, 2020

1:35 — It’s report card time 

1:44 — Gina’s & Christyn’s report card memories

4:56 — Homeschoolers often have a different rubric for measuring growth and a report card might not be necessary

6:00 — Gina defines rubric in a traditional, classroom sense: strictly judging a student’s work

7:33 — Albert Einstein and the fish in a tree

8:00 — Gina’s flower analogy: “flowers bloom when they bloom”

9:35 — Holding kids to a rigid measure is not realistic and/or desirable; it can lead to faulty judgement about ability

10:48 — Don’t destroy the growth potential. Compare a student only to him/herself

11:00 — Christyn discusses the stress-free schooling chapter in The Happiest Kids in the World

11:46 — Boston College professor: students in the US don’t care about competence – they care about grades 

12:21 — Gina discusses that idea and how the resulting mindset limits options

13:35 — Focusing on grades and exam results means the student misses out on everything else that education has to offer

14:37 — Gina focuses on mastery, with the result that there is no fear of failure. It’s just part of the process

 16:30 — Christyn discusses September’s take on report cards and ownership of her education

19:25 — Homeschool allows shifting and adjusting and understanding the material before you move on

19:55 — Christyn’s strategies for measuring success include setting a few yearly goals and employing the Monthly Narrative 

24:02 — Gina’s strategies for measurement includes snapshots/journaling and her “check-box” method

 27:00 — Accountability increases for high school

 27:45 — Gina discusses how that looks for her with math and literature 

30:05 — There is more growing going on than can be captured in a traditional rubric; find the method of measurement that works for your students

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