Just some thoughts on an article I'm reading for my course Ensuring Student Success...Article can be found here... http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar05/vol62/num06/No-Choice-But-Success.aspx
On the subject of a student completing the same questions but needing more help to do it... I recently had a similar discussion with my Mentor. If you have helped a student, how do we grade it? She notes that anything requiring support would not receive over a 'D'. Will the student (and parent?) see this as a failure. A 'what's the point' moment?
Is this D the same as the unsupported D? Should the criteria/assessment rubrics be the same for students that require a high level of support?
My personal thoughts on success are that in order to know success you may need to have known failure. We can not all succeed all of the time and an important life skill is the knowing how to deal with and recover from failure. This is the skill of resilience! What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger!
I love the idea of 'all' succeeding, but what if we create a society of people who cannot cope with failure? I believe that all children can succeed! But it is the tools with which we measure that success that are setting them up to fail. The term 'value adding' springs to mind. One man's success could be another man's failure.
I continue to ponder....
