Anthony Palma

High School Math Teacher

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@tultican I agree with the fact that standards-based grading is a terrible educational policy. If an individual teacher can make it work, power to them, but I can't seem to do as well under that system, so why do I have to?

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@alicekeeler @eduleadership It's not a band aid, it's a knife wound.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@mctownsley 1) What percent of research is peer-reviewed by critics? What percent of research has been repeated under the same circumstances by completely different people?

2) I have no idea what you are saying here.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@mctownsley 1. Let's call it convincing research when study is peer reviewed and repeated by different researchers who reach the same conclusion.
2. The teacher in the article was mostly complaining about the deterioration of school climate and students gaming the system.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@mctownsley I am not available. Feel free to clarify in your response.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

This is absolutely part of the standards based movement. It takes the 0 - 4 scale and lays it on the 50 - 100 scale. Can't say one is okay and not the other because they are basically the same thing.

[Matt Townsley @mctownsley]

This is not a part of the standards-based grading movement. Minimum grading (50% rather than 0) is a band aid mathematical fix for %-based grading. https://t.co/IlBCdv1EnJ

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@tombennett71 Looks like Phillip J. Fry's dog.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@DrStevePerry Who aggressively quit on kids? If you are talking about politicians in the U.S. that have allowed child poverty to be embarrassingly high, then I agree with you.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@GlynRogers @msrebeccabirch If the research was done scientifically well, then yes. The scientists should be trying to prove their conjectures wrong as well as trying to prove them right. Also, the conclusions should be repeatable by anyone.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@tuckbarrows Perhaps some went to school with the idea that their budgets would be higher than they actually are. For the life of me, I can't figure out why we can't tax millionaires more to have a more educated populace that benefits us all.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@mctownsley @tguskey Does that mean that the less levels there are for reporting, the lesser the accuracy of grades?

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@deerslayerbbd @mctownsley Are you pushing for a school with no building? That seems crazy. If not, students will be in buildings with walls and bells in situations where they need responsibility. Those need to be taught as well.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@mbcourtneyedd If PD credit is needed, then sure. However, I would much rather see PD be a thing of the past.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@mctownsley Of course, that's where you and I disagree. I think it makes sense to be able to report them in their class (not academic) grade as well.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@mctownsley At some level, those responsibilities can be expected. In HS, teachers can expect names to be on papers and for those to be turned in on time. This is similar to academic expectations not specifically taught like capitalizing the first letter of a sentence.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@mctownsley Yes, but not whether those teachers taught the responsibilities before grading those practices.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@mctownsley These links are not related to your previous claim. They are making the case for NEVER grading responsibility. That's a different issue.

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@mctownsley Interesting that you are okay with those things if they are explicitly taught. I think you are making an assumption that those aren't taught. What percentage of the time that a teacher takes off for late work, has the teacher not taught that work needs to be turned in on time?

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@mctownsley Can you give an example of assessing responsibility without it being taught?

[Anthony Palma @teacherpalma]

@econhumor @TeacherThomp And how does getting to know them change how we teach Quadratic Functions and logarithms? For the life of me, I can't see how we are supposed to take any of that information and use it during the primary functioning of our job.