Clarkston Community Schools
Third Grade SOAR: System of Assessment and Reporting
Our Belief Statement: The purpose of our 'System of Assessment and Reporting' is to provide an ongoing dialogue between teachers, students and parents about individual learning and growth. Our reporting system consists of multiple resources for parents, teachers and students. It is imperative that a learning system provides every student opportunities to demonstrate and celebrate his or her learning and receive feedback on his or her learning progress. In addition, the system fosters an environment so that parents know specific learning progress for their children.
Tools that are part of our System of Reporting on Student Learning
- Newsletters
- Teacher, classroom and curriculum websites
- Partnership Nights, Curriculum Nights
- Projects, portfolios or assignments
- Synergy-Student Information System (ParentVue)
- Learning Feedback Documents
- Ongoing assessment data including anecdotal notes, exit tickets, journal entries, post-it notes, engagement inventories, reading logs, conferring notes, etc.
- Portfolios
- Phone calls, E-mails
- Conferences
- Learning Progressions
- Celebration Notes
- Home Communication Folders
LEARNING FEEDBACK DOCUMENT
Purpose: The purpose of our Learning Feedback Document is to provide a communication tool for students, parents, teachers and administrators that reflects and fosters each student's learning progress towards the essential understandings.
Essential Understandings: These are the big ideas that have lasting value beyond the classroom and align with our mission to cultivate thinkers, learners and positive contributors to a global society. These understandings form the basis of what we want students to know, understand and do, and are based on the Michigan Academic Standards.
Markings:
Purpose: The purpose of our Learning Feedback Document is to provide a communication tool for students, parents, teachers and administrators that reflects and fosters each student's learning progress towards the essential understandings.
Essential Understandings: These are the big ideas that have lasting value beyond the classroom and align with our mission to cultivate thinkers, learners and positive contributors to a global society. These understandings form the basis of what we want students to know, understand and do, and are based on the Michigan Academic Standards.
Markings:
- SECURE: Student, consistently and independently, demonstrates understanding of the concept or skill.
- DEVELOPING: Student needs occasional support from others in order to demonstrate understanding of the skill or concept.
- BEGINNING: Student is not yet able to demonstrate understanding of the concept or skill without considerable support from others.