Teacherscribe's Teaching Thought #20

Teaching Thought #20

In prepping for my UND Teaching and Learning 250 class a few years ago, I came across this interesting read, Ten Things Teachers Should Unlearn – I revisit it before every school year.

Fifth thing teachers should unlearn:  Learning can be measured by a letter or number

I think our study of standards based grading is enough to prove this item.  How many times have we earned an A in a class, yet we learned very little?  We just knew how to jump through the hoops.  Likewise, I took a world religions course in college and earned a B.  But I learned more and worked harder in that class than many of my other classes combined.