TAR: MIDDLE: Report Card Grades

[Amanda Credaro <abcredaro@OZEMAIL.COM.AU>]

Date:    Sun, 6 Jun 2004 05:02:19 -0700
From:    Shayne Russell <s.russell@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: TAR: MIDDLE: Report Card Grades

>I am interested in knowing, for those of
>you who are in a middle school, if you are
>required to give report card grades for "Library".
>I did find information on this in the archives, but it
>dates back to 1999 and didn't mention grade levels.

>I am required to give NUMBER grades to 5th
>through 8th graders.  This year there were
>quite a lot of kids who got 60s (I've even given
>out Zeros!).  Only a handful of parents ever
>question it, which is pretty much indicative of
>the general attitude "it's only library".  It
>does keep them off the honor role if the grade
>is a 70 or 75 or something like that... which some of
>them care about.


Dear all …

Interesting that the same discussion should also be on our Australian
equivalent of LM_net.  The full list of (Australian) responses is in the
oztl_net archives, but in summary it seems that the balance of opinion is
(as one person put it) “library is a building, not a subject”.  To grade
“library” makes even less sense than grading “lunch” or “toilet” …

In some Australian elementary schools, the teacher librarians’ “grading” of
“library” is restricted to borrowing statistics (who knows what use that is
to anyone!); others have formal “library lessons”.  In Best Practice schools
(100% CPT) the library’s role is in supporting teaching and learning – the
cooperative lessons may be assessed in tandem between the TL and the
classroom teacher – but the grade shown on the report is for the subject or
class, not the “library component”.

Hope this helps?

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