{"id":862,"date":"2022-01-20T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amblesideschools.org\/?p=862"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T22:03:25","slug":"student-growth-not-measured-by-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amblesideschools.org\/student-growth-not-measured-by-grades\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting On Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;true&#8221; custom_padding_t=&#8221;30&#8243; custom_padding_b=&#8221;30&#8243; row_hide_sm=&#8221;yes&#8221; row_hide_md=&#8221;yes&#8221; row_hide_xs=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1630864580219{background-color: #faf5eb !important;}&#8221;][vc_column]<div class=\"templatera_shortcode\"><div class=\"container-fluid row_section vc_row_cp_lr_15 vc_row_cp_t_0 vc_row_cp_b_0\"><div  class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_column-gap-15 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When I was a boy,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">I thought that all sorts of inventions and changes that represented progress were all important. But I learned from him that progress is what men may or may not achieve, while growth is what is intended for us. Growth implies the inevitable rounding out, the fulfillment of living things.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This inevitable rounding out and the fulfillment of persons is often disrupted by parents and teachers who begin to measure a child\u2019s experiences and progress and make comparisons. \u201cShe is crawling later than\u2026 but talking earlier than\u2026.\u201d \u201cMy oldest knew the alphabet by 20 months, he was a natural. Yet, all my children were reading by four.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As formal education begins, whether at home or school, the measuring intensifies. Opportunities arise to \u201cbest\u201d one another through grades, awards, and prizes. Parents sometimes act as the great equalizer, spouting the exceptional progress of their children in sports, music, or academic work, differentiating one from the other. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the 21<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">st<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> century, progress is a supreme value in education. So, it is not surprising that much of school life is viewed as progressing from one grade to the next in classes for gifted and talented, advanced studies, and honors, with some progressing more rapidly than others. Some are viewed as being limited by the same academic and relational weaknesses carried from year to year, without any hope of growth.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Growth is synonymous with change. Physical growth is seen through bodily maturation from infancy to adulthood; whereas intellectual, spiritual, and relational growth is seen through changes in behavior and thinking, resulting in skill development, the ability to talk and write about a subject, and the pursuit of further knowledge. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At Ambleside, we are more concerned with student growth than with student progress. Teachers carry on the work of facilitating student growth through daily oral and written work, both individually and as a class. Each day, every student is an active participant. Children are called upon to recite, recap, and retell what was read, seen, or heard, both orally and on dry erase boards. Students are given explicit instructions on how to work, strengthening habits of accuracy, thoroughness, and neatness.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ambleside teachers know their students well because throughout the years they are with them, both while doing the work of learning and during times of refreshment at lunch and play.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In\u202fthe upcoming weeks, parents will receive their children\u2019s semi-annual\u202fReport of Growth. Throughout the month, teachers have been engaged in the painstaking and delightful work of looking over each student\u2019s work in lesson books and examinations and reviewing comments and data in their teacher record books. Teachers have reflected on both student relational maturity, with classmates and adults, and on the student\u2019s approach to academic work, in the many disciplines of study such as mathematics, history, handwork, literature and much more. Upon reading the teachers\u2019 comments, parents often remark, \u201cthe teacher really knows my child!\u201d and \u201cthese same weaknesses are seen at home.\u201d\u202f\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At Ambleside, our primary concern is always the kind of student each child is becoming. We are confident that the student who masters the art of learning and living well will attain his full potential for<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">understanding subject content. The student who<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">fully<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">grasps<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the art of relating well will attain the fullness of life for which he or she was created.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Growth is what is intended for each of us.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Let knowledge grow from more to more,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But more of reverence in us dwell;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That mind and soul, according well,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">May make one music as before, But vaster.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Alfred Tennyson<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:2160,&quot;335559731&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of\u202fAmbleside Schools is student growth, and\u202fone of the\u202fdistinctives is that student growth is not measured by grades.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maryellen-st-cyr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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