Grading Policy and Class Procedures

Robert Graham's Spanish Classes

Glenelg High School 2009-2010

By September 3, 2009, each student will download a copy of these Spanish Class Policies and Procedures, Sign them, have a Parent Sign them and place the signed copy in their personal classwork/homework folder. This folder is to remain in the classroom.

--Grades will be calculated at the end of each quarter using a simple average of all points earned from all sources during that quarter. Homework (HW) and Participation (TLP) will be worth 100 points each per quarter and will be calculated and added only at the end of each quarter. Scores from any county assessment, including the midterm exam and final exam, will be used to calculate quarterly grades.

--At the end of each quarter and before the calculation of a final average, students may elect to drop their lowest assessment score from the quarter in question. Students may not elect to drop HW or TLP.

--Students will have a Grade Record Sheet (GRS) with which to maintain an up to date and accurate record of their assessment scores. They will know what the teacher knows about their grade.

--Keeping an accurate and up to date GRS will be worth 25 points of each student's quarterly, 100 point TLP score. The GRS will be kept in class, in the students' HW folder. Students should make and keep another copy of assessment data for themselves and parents.

--Interim "grades" will be the result of a simple average of all assessments completed at that time of the calculation and are often out of date by the time of their publication and distrubition. The best assessment of student progress is each student's accurate and up to date GRS.

Homework assignments will be posted on the class chalkboard and the class webpage: teacherweb.com/md/glenelghighschool/graham Please see the detailed Homework Policies section of this webpage for more information about Homework and how it will be evaluated by your Spanish teacher.

It is each student's responsibility to consult the class webpage daily and obtain homework assignments, learn about upcoming assessments and become familiar with class policies as needed, especially during an absence from school for any reason. Unless prior arrangements have been made to do otherwise, any student in class on the day of an assessment, takes that assessment. All assessments, except the one assessment students choose to omit, count in calculating all students' quarterly grades.

ClassworkParticipation is important in any foreign language course. The scoring of this segment is subjective and will also comprise an audit of each student's GRS to be done by your Spanish teacher.

Students are expected to bring all needed materials with them to class every day. These include their own textbook, any workbook and a Spanish class journal divided into 5 sections: Class Exercises (trabajo de class or TC); Vocabulary; Grammar notes; Assessment Scores and Homework. Homework will be numbered. Students will be expected to file their numbered Homework in their classwork/homework folder and keep this folder in class and available for inspection/audit by their teacher at any time in class or between classes. The entire classwork/homework folder will be audited for both HW and TLP credit. Incomplete materials or materials absent from class on the day of any audit or work turned in late will received no credit.

Students will be expected to be seated in their assigned classroom seats when the bell rings to begin class and to remain seated until the bell rings to end each class.

Robert Graham's email address is: gladspanish@hotmail.com

Class webpage is: teacherweb.com/md/glenelghighschool/graham

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