All grades should reflect the mastery of state standards.Ĥ. Graded Items Policy: Summative grades for each nine week grading period will be compiled of multiple categories that may include work from, but are not limited to, classwork, homework, written assignments, teacher selected projects, tests, etc. Students who have unserved detentions or received ISS or OSS will not be exemptģ. Exemption Policy: The following formula will determine exemptions from the final examinations if the teacher elects to exempt students from their exam.Ĭombination of 3 tardies/early dismissal = 1 absence Job shadowing experiences with presentations that connect class study to the world of work. Deeper exploration of the culture values, and history of the discipline.Ĩ.Extensive opportunities for problem solving experiences through imagination, critical analysis, and application.ĩ. Use and integration of appropriate technology into the course of study.ħ. Examples of style include formal, informal, literary, analytical, and technical.Ħ.
Examples of purpose include to inform, entertain, and persuade.Ĭ. Examples of mode include narrative, descriptive, persuasive, expository, and expressive.ī. Writing assignments that demonstrate a variety of modes, purposes, and styles.Ī. Open-ended investigations in which the student selects the questions and designs the research. Connection of the project to the community is encouraged. These may include oral presentation, power point presentations, or other modes of sharing findings. Projects that apply course curriculum to relevant or real-world situations. Research-based writing assignments that address and extend the course curriculum (Required of all honors courses).Įxtended reading assignments that connect with the specified curriculum. For Advanced Placement (AP) classes, five (5) points shall be added by the teacher to the final term average before assigning the FINAL (semester) grade.Īccording to the Sumner County Schools Curriculum Guide, “an honors course shall include a minimum of five (5) of the following components: Notes: For honors classes, three (3) points shall be added by the teacher to the final term average before assigning the FINAL (semester) grade. Grading System: The basic grading system for all subject areas in grades 9-12 at Westmoreland High School shall be expressed by numerical grades on progress reports and report cards. The following policies and practices will reinforce this purpose. Just the whole combination of all those needs make it a practical impossibility to retroactively change all those grades.Purpose: To provide information to all stakeholders regarding the school-wide grading policy. Did they not get credit then have to take that same course a second time and get a different grade? Some students have moved out, some teachers have left, they’ve retired. “Some students didn’t get credit because for the state and for us 69 and below was a failure but now it’s going to be 59 and below, it was a practical impossibility to go back and determine who should’ve gotten credit, who might’ve done credit recovery. “The state board of education on July 22nd, wisely I think, determined at the previous grading scale would continue for the previous years because it is a practical impossibility to go back and figure out everything,” said Golden. WCS Superintendent Jason Golden explained why the policy wasn’t retroactive as the question was raised by several school board members. Rutherford County Schools will have a 10-point grading scale for third through 12th grade. The Williamson County School Board voted unanimously Monday to have the 10-point grading scale apply to grades two through 12.
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