Some of my students really impress me. I just had a conference with a student who currently has a low grade in my class because of some missing assignments. She came in to show me her "work in progress". She hasn't finished her degree yet, but she is already teaching Arabic at a charter school. I was impressed by her idealism, her hope that teaching about Arabic language and culture will make the world a better, more tolerant place. I was also impressed by her innovation as she showed me her class blog and her middle school students Arabic music videos. Then she began to describe her plans for her unit on Arab-Israeli relations.
The course coordinator for IP&T stresses consistency in grading between sections, so we have to have common assignments and point values between classes, but what do grades mean when a teacher who is actively teaching with technology has a low grade in her "Teaching with Technology" course?
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