Chapter 8: Grading and Reporting Achievement

Chapter eight focused on grading and reporting grades in a differentiated classroom. I found that this chapter was really interesting because it reminded me of all my teachers going through school. I never thought about using a curve system or a weighted system of grading. This type of teaching can hurt some students on both ends of the spectrum. The use of a bell curve is not a good representation of how students should be achieving. My students will hopefully have a high end toward the A end and very few at the F side of the grading scale. Students should not get an A in a class where students normally get C’s or D’s and then get C’s or D’s in classes where students get A’s or B’s.