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PowerTeacher Gradebook: Power Standards–Checking student performance
May 23, 2012
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
How does our team check our students’ overall, final performance on each Power Standard for the year? When the team has been discussing the Power Standards and their assessment throughout the year through the routine instructional planning process, creating common Power Standards assessments as a team, and analyzing the performance of the students together as […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Power Standards–How to override
May 23, 2012
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
How does a teacher override a Power Standard mark at the end of the year? First, near the top of the Gradebook window under the row of main navigation buttons, in the “Reporting Term” pull-down menu, select “Y1” as pictured below. Then, click on the “Final Grades” button, which is also highlighted below. Then, go […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Power Standards-Odd or even assessments?
May 23, 2012
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Do students have to have an odd number of Power Standards assessments? No. The issue is that if there is an even number of assessments and the student has an even number of “Mastery” and “Progressing Toward Mastery” marks on those assessments, the student will not have a score automatically assigned because there is no […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Power Standards-How many assessments?
May 23, 2012
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, Power Standards, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
How many assessments should each student have for each Power Standard? Statistics would suggest that it would be ideal for students to have approximately 7 assessments for each Power Standard over the course of the year, but there is no rule regarding how many assessments is the right amount for each Power Standard. The nature […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Fill Down-Efficiency & Communication
August 31, 2011
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Over the years of PowerTeacher Gradebook use and training, teams and teachers in District 21 have become quite proficient with creating assessments, entering scores, and even analyzing student performance within the PowerTeacher Gradebook. One facet of being highly proficient with the Gradebook is to know and be able to use the time-saving tricks that can […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Power Standards assessments without grades
September 26, 2010
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Teachers can actually mark a Power Standard on an assignment without giving any score for the academic grade on that assignment. This is also exactly how Kindergarten teachers can and should collect and enter data on the performance of their students. First, create the assignment as you normally would. Then, assign the appropriate Power Standard(s) […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Quick entry with the reporting term filter
January 29, 2009
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchoo, PowerTeacher
By the middle of the trimester, there are lots of assessments that have collected in your Scoresheet in the PowerTeacher Web Gradebook. When you add a new assessment at this point, it is placed in chronological order–typically all the way over to the right side of the screen if it is the newest assessment. One […]
PowerTeacher Gradebook: Suggested Learner Quality Categories
November 19, 2008
Tags: Gradebook, Grades, PowerSchool, PowerTeacher
Suggested categories for each Learner Quality are listed as the bulleted items within the category/Learner Quality. These were developed based on the work of the sixth grade teams at London during Fall 2008. Self-Directed Learner Homework completion Projects Prepared for class Responsibility for Own Learning Collaborative Worker Small group Large group Quality […]
Each District 21 school is named after an American author, and learning and literacy is at the center of our Professional Learning Community. The Modern Pen provides a collaborative location in which District 21 teachers can come together to learn the skills that will enable their students to learn new skills and to understand concepts at an even different level than before.
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