The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-04-09
TEACHERS DISCUSS
GRADING PUPILS
INTERESTING DISCUSSIONS ARD
HAD IN TEACHERS IN
STITUTE MEETING.
schools VIII Close Here ON May 30.
According to Announcements
Made BY Superintendent
G. B. Winn.

G. b. Winn.
The teachers in the city schools
OF Waxahachie met in regular month
| ~ institute on Saturday at S:45, SUI
perintendent g. B. VIM presiding.
Sectional meetings were dispensed
with. as II was necessary to give all
the time to the general meeting.
Mr.. VIM made several announce
ments. He stated that school would
close Wednesday, May 80. with the
commencement sermon at the Main
Street Christian church on Sunday
and the graduating exercises Al The
Methodist church on "Wednesday. Re-
views viii commence May IA and eA-
aninations viii begin May n AID
finish on Monday, May rs. Cards
and reports OF all kinds will be COM
pleted on Tusday. May %.
The subject FOR discussion il the
regular meeting was that OF grading.
Miss Davis was TO have been tile
first speaker, hut owing to illness in
aer family she did hot take her
place on the program. The sas53eeg
nas divided into four parts. The fiTst
division. why Standards Of Grad
ing Are not Uniform, was ably dis
cussed by Mr.. Landrum. He stated
that it was impossible TO. have q .nili-
form system OF grading. He Illus
trated this by an incident which
happened at Southwestern uniyersi-
ty. He said that several years ago
a Southwestern student wrote pa
per on philosophy, which Was ae-
cepteds by the teacher OF Southwes
tern. THE same paper was present
ed at another university and reeeiv-
ed very low grade by the instructor
in philosophy.s At Columbia Jniver-
sity the paper Was pronounced the
best or It's Kind that the teacher had
ever seen. This shows the great va
ration in grading by various IN
struetors Mr. Landrum stated that
in private school in which he
taught pupils were graded according
to their ability. The best pupils We're
given 90 per cent, other pupils were
given 90 and on down to 20 per cent
If the teacher found that a student
was capable of doing only 50 per
cent work, then this pupil was mark
ed excellent on his card because this
was the best the pupfl could do. He
said, however. this system would not
work in our public schools.
Mr.. Landrum also called attention
to the fact that if children study the
teacher and learn what his hobbies
are. then the child will get a better
grade than the child who does not
study the teacher He believes that
it is absolutely impossible for a
teacher to grade with any degree OF
accuracy when the classes are as
large as classes now are in many OF
our public schools.
The next speaker was Mr.. Crews.
His subject was entitled What |
Mean BY a p Grade Mr. Crews
thinks that a teacher should get all
he could out of q child before he
gives them the p" grade. lie
stressed the point that teacher
should al all times be conscientious
n his grading. He thinks that even
though child is very capable. It
should not be given a good gfade
provided il 3pes "a poor class 81
WORT
tlr Scout tAen foiiewec spsa&4ns
on the following suo5ect: Grades
Should represent What to Parents
III the tirst place. he said. the grade
ehould give a general idea OF the
pupils standing in the various sub
jeets. Second, the grade should be
"a connecting link between the parent
and the teacher Nj. scott feels that
the parent should know Just wha5
the GRADES OIL the card mean. for il
the parents know what all marks On
tae card mean then there would be
2 hearty cooperation Or the part o.
the parent.
"1'he Aumof a Teacher Should US
III When Grades are Put on the
Card was discussed very interest
insly by Miss Harlan Miller. size
feels that grader put On naneI and