Teachers Throwing Out Grades: A Movement That’s Trending
Teachers are throwing out grades. It’s not a joke. It’s not a fool’s dream. It’s a movement, and the movement is trending.
The first-ever Teachers Throwing Out Grades Twitter chat, at hashtag #TTOG, brought teachers, principals, parents and administrators from around the world together for a rapid-fire 30-minute live chat that became a trending topic on Twitter.
People often ask if the no-grades classroom is realistic. “Sure, talking to kids about learning is preferable to giving them a B or a D,” they say. “But don’t people really just want a measurement?” While I’d argue that those who want measurements fail to understand what a no-grades classroom looks like, the fact is that teachers throwing out grades is realistic, and it’s happening.
Below are just some of the hundreds of tweets sent to the #TTOG Twitter hashtag, during the first Teachers Throwing Out Grades chat.
Read this amazing discussion, and please join this movement on Facebook, and be on the lookout for the next #TTOG chat.
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