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Daily Archives: May 12, 2016
Connection between transcript and project work
Continuing our work on the graduation plan, we circled today around the question of the relationship between project work and their transcripts. Somewhat thrillingly, given my unease about student connection between the quality of their work and their grades, nearly ever student talked about the connection between their work and their grades. Elated, I probably didn’t process as much as I could have…
“If my project work wasn’t good, then it would show on my transcript.” JR
“The projects I do connect to my transcript because it show my academic grades.” HG
“If I do well on project work, it will reflect well on my transcript.” TC
“The project work is important to my future plans. Those are important because projects we do here are actually helping the real world.” TJC
“The way our school is set up makes it difficult to focus on one grade. Grades that I get on my projects reflect on my transcript.” JG
Goal reached
I ask my students to keep a document to keep track of their work. We call it a tracker.
I have a tracker, too, for this manuscript I’ve been working on. I don’t have a title yet. When I started it I was reading Judy Blume with Kara, so the terrible working title was “Are you there, God? It’s me, the trying-to-remain idealistic teacher.” Dreadful. Awful.
Here’s the first entry from my tracker:
03142015
Write it as a book proposal?
Why not?
This morning, 7:29 AM, first draft complete!
