Today in class we talked about anecdotal reporting. A lot of teachers in the public school system are not awarer that they have the opportunity to choose anecdotal reporting instead of regular number or letter grades. The only time you need to give the number is in the final report card in June. You can ask parents if they want anecdotal report cards or number grades. Or you can do anecdotal report cards and say that if parents want a grade that they need to make an appointment with the teacher (most will not). We looked at an example of a report card from the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry http://learningstorm.org and how they organize and track progress of students from term to term. Elementary teachers have the opportunity to do this because like teachers at PSII we have the same students all year. On the example report card shown it shows a grid of each subject area and how much of the subject curriculum the student has learned so far.