Changes are being made to the way our children are graded in Anglophone East.
Parents will notice new report cards in the coming months, that no longer use a letter grade or percentage to indicate how your kids are doing..
Director of Instruction and Curriculum Elizabeth Nowlan says instead, it will be a 1 to 4 achievement scale, that indicate whether the student is meeting, excelling in or below expectations for the school year.
She says, “The report cards will give a lot of descriptive feedback about what they need to do to improve their learning. They need to know where they are on the scale. We’re striving to reach yearend expectations and we have the whole year to get there, so no one report card is final. At the end of the year, we really have to assess if they have met those expectations for the school year.”
There will still be three report cards per year, but each will be a progression.
Nowlan says all students learn at a different pace and this new report card will be a better representation of that.
