It’s report card time. Report cards are a great way to show student growth BUT you can spend a lot of time doing report cards and if you don’t handle report cards just right your best intentions can backfire and make your teacher life pretty miserable.
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Today get the dos and don’ts of report cards. Use this step by step workflow and report card comment hack to get your report cards done in record time. Get ready to EASILY build and strengthen (instead of tearing down and weaken) relationships with students and parents.
This video is geared towards kindergarten and first grade teachers but no matter the grade you teach you can get some solid tips from a teacher of 25 years. (Mistakes- Yah, I’ve made them. This video is for you to learn from my report card mistakes and hopefully save you the stress and frustration I’ve had by doing report cards the wrong way.)
6 Dos And Don’ts For Report Card Time
Don’t rely completely on a number in a grade book.
Do have a student folder with work samples to support percentage/grades/skills.
Don’t have data and students work in several places
Do organized data in one spot for easy and quick reference
Don’t write a new report card comment for each student
Do use a report card template and word/comment bank to structure and quickly fill in student data and observations
Don’t reveal a problem area in a report card without talking with parents about the skill/behavior deficit first
Do communicate with parents before report cards come out about any problems
Don’t use negative language to describe a child or their skill/behavior
Do use positive language to describe skills/behaviors deficit.
Don’t tell parents about a problem without giving how you are helping the child remediate the issue
Do give specifics on exactly how the child is not on level and how you are working with the child to meet our exceed specific skills and/or behaviors
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