Teacher Comments on Report Cards. Teacher Comments on Report Cards. Several times a year, teachers must complete a report card for each student in order to inform parents about the academic performance and social growth of their child.
Schools have a variety of ways to document the progress of students.
In a majority of schools, teachers usually assign a number or letter grade to the subject or skill areas. In several schools, mostly elementary schools, teachers write a descriptive narrative of each child's cognitive and social growth. Other schools have teachers indicate whether a student has acquired different skills by completing a checklist. Despite the fact that schools have different policies concerning the report card's content and format, most teachers are required to include written comments about the student's progress. The purpose of this digest is to explain why teacher comments on report cards are important, offer suggestions on how to construct effective comments, point out words or phrases to be cautious of using, and indicate sources of information for report card comments.