Sunday, October 13, 2013

Problems problems everywhere...

What do you do when kids don't opt to retake a learning target?  In my honors classes, the kids are real go-getters.  They are self-driven (for the most part) and when they have a chance to bring their grade up and retake a target, they do.  In my regular level Statistics class, though, I have kids that are settling for the D.  Ok, it is their right to settle for less than perfect.  I get it.  But the problem arises when kids are settling for an F...

Part of the difference is in how I am grading.  I honors, the kids either get the target or they fail the target.  In Stats, I am giving them percentage on each target.  But I have astonishing amount of kids who could do better but simply choose not to.

While I have no suggestions to offer, I wanted to throw this out there as a problem that I am encountering...perhaps I will be back to offer some helpful insights IF I figure this out...

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