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PowerTeacher Gradebook: Weighting Rubrics–A Specific Example
November 3, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher, Rubric
Using rubrics is one of the best ways to assess student performance on a high-level open-ended task. Often times, rubrics (like the one pictured above) will include multiple areas of assessment. For example, the “Math Knowledge” and “Strategic Knowledge” grades of the rubric will enter in to the “Mathematics” Gradebook. On the other hand, the […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Weighting Assignments
November 3, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Not all assessments are equal in importance or time, and as a result, they should not appear to be such in the Gradebook. Some assessments may not count toward a grade at all. Others may prove to be very small. Many will be of some medium weight. A few will be very large, such as […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: The Learner Qualities
November 3, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Learner Qualities, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
How do we assess the Learner Qualities in contrast to Academic Grades? While student growth and performance in literacy, mathematics, science, and social science are of utmost important in School District 21, there is also an understanding that knowledge and skills in these areas alone will not allow an individual to be as likely to […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Creating an assignment
November 3, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Creating an assignment to enter the scores from a particular assessment in the PowerTeacher Gradebook is fairly easy and offers lots of options to the teachers on a particular team. To create an assignment in the Gradebook, first be sure that the “Assignments” button has been clicked and is blue. (By default, the Assignments mode […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Overview on Entering Assignments
November 3, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
What are we assessing? The first step to entering assignments is knowing what the assignments are. The move to using the Power Standards as a focus and guide, the inclusion of the Learner Qualities in our assessment system, and our efforts to differentiate instruction based on student performance all will cause us to take a […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Categories
November 3, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Before creating assignments in the PowerTeacher Gradebook, a team must create Categories. One cannot create an assignment without applying a Category to that assignment. The purpose of Categories in the PowerTeacher Gradebook is to provide your team with a basis for analyzing student performance in different categories of assessments! With the inclusion of standards as […]
PowerTeacher: Switching between schools
August 19, 2013
Tags: PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Prior to the 2013-2014 school year, teachers who were assigned to two schools had completely different logins to PowerTeacher. Now, since the PowerSchool 7.8 update that was completed during July 2013, teachers who teach in multiple schools will be able to access all of their students with a single login. 1. Login as you have […]
Using Google Drive in the browser
May 28, 2013
Tags: Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Slides
While Google Drive will work in most browsers, CCSD21 students and staff members will use it most frequently and to the greatest effect in the Chrome browser, and all features and apps are supported when using Chrome. If you haven’t done so already, sign into Google Apps with your CCSD21 Google Apps account. Once you […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Self-verifying before report cards
May 22, 2013
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
To allow teachers additional time to assess students and enter scores over the traditional verification process as well as to make the process significantly more efficient for school secretaries, teachers self-verify core academic grades, exploratory/special area grades, Learner Quality grades, Power Standards (end of the school year only), and comments. As pictured below, there are […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Categories for Kindergarten
November 11, 2012
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Following visits to Kindergarten classrooms and discussions with Kindergarten teachers, it has become apparent that Kindergarten Gradebooks in PowerTeacher can likely benefit from three consistent Categories across Gradebooks: Daily Work, Observations, and One-on-One Assessment. As a reminder, across all grade levels, the Gradebook should be used as a tool that allows for the efficient collection […]
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