Chapter 11 FIAE: Six Burning Grading Issues

Grading is most definitely one of the most challenging things about teaching. The one pressing issue that really stood out to me in this chapter was the question “Do I keep the zero or turn it into a sixty in order to make the grading scale fair?” (137). This is a very important question, and it will be something that I’m faced with in the classroom. There are going to be those students who don’t do their homework, or turn in their project, or just don’t participate at all. As a former middle and high school student, and a future middle and high school teacher, I am quite aware that sometimes life just gets in the way of things being turned in at a timely matter. I like the idea of putting an Incomplete in my grade book for homework that has not been turned in. That way the students will have until the end of the grading period to give me their work. If and when the students don’t turn in their work then I will most likely give them a 60, not a zero.