I believe if there is anything that is essential in a classroom, it is the use of report cards. Students are present in a classroom for 180 days a year to learn and develop their minds based on fundamental teaching. Parents pay for their tuition and leave them with a responsible adult for 6-7 hours, 5 days a week. Report cards show students, parents, teachers and administrators how well a child is doing in school, not only academically but many times behaviorally as well. This written document displays to parents the outcome of all of their child's work throughout the academic year. It is imperative to keep track of students' records and have them available for future use. Although there are many benefits to having report cards, for students, they may sometimes be embarrassing and discouraging if they are not doing well in their studies to see the outcome of these results. A student who is trying to achieve an A in his/her science class, who is averaging out a C could get discouraged seeing this on a report card when they possibly know they are capable of doing better. In contrast, a student who believes he/she is doing well could be surprised to know they need to work harder if their grade is below what they expected. In either case, report cards open up students' eyes to the reality of their time in school and how they are using it when dealing with their studies. Although, as I just said, they can discourage students if they are not doing well, they can also encourage students to do better so their grades improve. I believe in order to solve the problem of seeing less than satisfactory grades, there should be positive reinforcement and feedback given from the teacher. I believe the teacher should be able to write comments on how to improve in the subject areas that need it, as well as behaviorally, for example: if the student talks too much, how to prevent this from being a habit. Also, if students are doing well, the teacher should praise them and encourage them to keep up the good work. Teachers should also highlight the strengths of a student who is having difficulty academically, to give him/her courage to know they have good qualities in the classroom, but just need some help in other areas. With this information, students will be given guidelines and assistance in areas they may really need it in. Overall, I believe report cards have more strengths than weaknesses in schools and should always be given as a form of assessment.
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I so agree with your report cards.... replying back from my commet.. yes thank god!! i found this out now. by the way i did not even recongize you on the pic... u look very mature outside of school.l.ol j/k
Kristina, I agree with your posting about report cards. They are essential! I like the fact that you touched upon how it's not only for the student, but rather the parents, teachers, and administrators as well. Report cards are more than just a piece of paper with letter grades on it. In a perfect world, it SHOULD be a way of motivating students to work hard for their grades, but we all know we live far from that perfect world. Although report cards do have negatives, I agree that it is an important aspect of schooling. Good job :)
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