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How do you manage this on the highschool transcript? I am busily typing up my dd17's transcript, due to go out in 1 week (yikes!). I have LOTS of books titles, some essays etc. but no grades. How do those who have gone before me handle this??? He has been CM/relaxed in the highschool years...
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It's late and I'm tired, so this will be really vague, but I also don't keep grades for coursework my high-schoolers do with me, except that I do assign end-of-semester grades (and I probably wouldn't have done even that if I hadn't had this online grade-reporting thing that came with our umbrella school years ago).
Basically I assign a grade in one of three ways, depending on the circumstances:
1. An outside class in which another teacher has given a grade: score. That's the grade.
2. Coursework in which the student himself takes regular tests and grades them (my high-schoolers, past and present, keep up with their own math grades, for instance). At the end of the term I have the student average those test grades. Score! That's the grade.
3. Coursework, such as my gargantuan humanities/lit/history/religion thing, which all bleeds into each other and has some papers, sort of, though I don't always give actual grades on those, and maybe a year-end exam which is like a big narration . . . This is the hard part, because I don't ride herd on it much, and although I assign a lot, with a lot of detail, and both my kids to do this so far have worked very hard, in reality it's pretty open-ended.
How I "grade" this is to consider how much the student has done, of what quality his writing and talking about the subject matter has been, how engaged he has seemed with the whole thing, how ready he has been with responses when I've dropped a conversational bomb on him about his reading ("So, The Crito . . . what *is* the individual's responsibility to the state?") in passing. In short, and I know how flaky this sounds, I think about whether he really seems like an A student in those subjects, or what. Has he been really into it, or just been going through the motions? Can he speak and write articulately about it, or not so much? Does he seem pretty knowledgable? *How* knowledgable?
So I just kind of say a prayer and give a grade which I hope and believe is a fairly accurate reflection of that child's engagement with and absorption of that subject. I try to be honest and not all, "Really my child is a genius. Behold the 4.0." At the same time, I have to be fair to him -- I'm not going to give him some harsh grade when he and I both know he's worked hard, just so that nobody will think I'm practicing grade inflation.
Anyway, that's how I do it. The flaky way.
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Love it Sally- doesn't seem flaky at all.
I want to be real and that is a great way to go about it...One thing we have encountered is that I don't assign enough papers. It has been my weakness. We do lots of labs, lots of math etc. but the papers get the short end of the stick every time.
Do you submit some sort of rubrik with your transcript? Is it necessary??
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Paying attention here... Right now for classes which don't have tests I am trying rather subjectively to assess "mastery", but I don't assign (or get) enough papers either and doing it mainly through conversation feels a little flaky to me... like I ought to have more. I'm also not sure on what standard to give the grade.
Anyway, I'm not helpful, but I'm glad you asked the question, Kristie!
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Glad someone could comisserate!
My other thing is how to list science on the transcript- in Canada we have grade 9 and 10 general science and then all three sciences for grade 11 and 12  A friend let me know how she does it and it has given me near heart failure today 
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