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Teachers Going Gradeless

Student Learning Strategies
Check out my Visible Learning student resources page! This is how I am implementing a gradeless learning model with my own students.

High Yield Influences to Build Assessment Capable Visible Learners

Teacher Clarity

Expectations

Challenge

Self-Reported Grades

Feedback

1. Where Am I Going?
2. How Am I Doing?
3. What Are My Next Steps?

Agency & Ownership for learning through goal-setting 


​Hattie’s 8 Mind Frames: Adopt a learning mindset

  1. ​My fundamental task is to evaluate the effect of my teaching on students’ learning and achievement.
  2. The success and failure of my students’ learning is about what I do or don’t do. I am a change agent.
  3. I want to talk more about learning than teaching.
  4. Assessment is about my impact.
  5. I teach through dialogue not monologue.
  6. I enjoy the challenge and never retreat to “doing my best”.
  7. It’s my role to develop positive relationships in class and staffrooms.
  8. I inform all about the language of learning.

How to Implement A Gradeless Model with a block schedule

We have a modified block schedule at my school, where Mondays are ALL periods (36 minutes) and then Tuesday through Friday are alternating blocks (odd periods Tues/Thurs and even periods Wed/Fri, 90 minutes). Here is how I structure my instructional time:

"Mastery Mondays" (all periods)- Students review the results of the previous week’s work, including feedback on assignments and homework, and choose an assignment (or portion) they would like to revisit. During a 15-minute segment of the class, they revise responses and resubmit. Teacher adjusts feedback on previous tasks and assignments.

Block 1 (odd periods Tu, even periods Wed)- New Topic Introduced

Practice

​Block 2 (odd periods Th, even periods Fri)- Topic Explored More In-Depth

Practice

Gradeless Learning Model Foundation Research...if you're interested in a little light reading!

Frey, Nancy, John Hattie, and Douglas Fisher. Developing assessment-capable visible learners : grades K-12 : maximizing skill, will, and thrill. Thousand       
   Oaks, California: Corwin Literacy, 2018. Print.


Ferriter, William M., and Paul J. Cancellieri. Creating a culture of feedback : solutions for creating the learning spaces students deserve. Bloomington,   

   Indiana: Solution Tree Press, 2017. Print.
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