603- What My Grades Mean to Me

At first, upon reading this assignment, I thought this was going to be a fairly easy assignment. I was very wrong. The more I have thought about it the more I realized that my grades mean many different things to me.

My grades mean that I am accurately evaluating the level of understanding that my students are demonstrating, while at the same time giving my student's the greatest opportunity possible to display their true academic ability.

It will not be my goal to trick my students, or play "gotcha" with their grades.

My grades mean that my students are synthesizing the information that I am delivering to them, and are able to internalize it and display to me that they have understood what has been taught.

My goal is for my grades to be an accurate and reliable representation of what my student's have learned and what they understand.

My grades should reflect what I have been successful in teaching as well as those areas where there continues to be confusion within the student body.

I can be counted among those who are uncomfortable with assigning grades to my students, this is an area where I have room to continue to grow and learn.

My grades mean that I am doing a good job imparting knowledge and understanding to my students and that knowledge and understanding is reflected in valid grades.