School Responsibilities:

• Ensure collaboration and awareness on teachers’ part of grading and feedback processes in other DP courses
• Ensure that teachers set and use consistent expectations and consistent vocabulary of grading and feedback in the DP courses
• Provide opportunities for parent, student, and teacher feedback on grading practices
• Facilitate both physical and electronic methods for easy, flexible, communication between teachers, parents, and students

Teacher Responsibilities:

• Maintain transparent and consistent grading expectations for their respective courses
• Reinforce habits of reflection and inquiry by providing students dedicated, structured opportunities for criterion-referenced peer feedback and self-assessment before assigning a grade
• Assign grades to summative assessments and provide feedback to formative assessments. Both grades and feedback should be criterion-referenced
• Allow students opportunities to reflect on and use teacher and peer feedback to make changes to their work
• Allow students opportunities to re-assess for a grade (format can be changed at teacher discretion)
• Maintain a regularly updated grade book per district guidelines

Student Responsibilities:

• Maintain consistent awareness of grades and progress in Canvas, StudentVUE, and ManageBac
• Provide descriptive feedback to peers and teachers to support student and teacher learning
• Communicate with teachers when there is a concern about their grades
• Use any feedback provided to make adjustments to work

Rev. 1/14/2020