The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the learner. No, I wasn't surprised by any of his recommendations, but I do agree with them all. I tend to agree especially with his view on averaging grades as being an ineffective depiction of student learning. Averaging does not represent what the student has learn, only assessments of current information based on past data reflect an accurate measure of a student's learning. The suggestion of using the median instead of the mean in averaging is a consideration in accurately measuring student learning to avoid the averaging of zeros for late, missed, or neglected work.
Zeros reflect no learning.
An obvious misrepresentation of the learning process.