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Dear Community, SGMS Parents, Teachers and Students:
The nation is moving to a new Core Standards which New Mexico has joined, along with 48 other states. Here is the link to the standards (http://www.corestandards.org/) that will be required of all school districts within the next two years. This will be a significant change from our current state standards and benchmarks. If you have any questions pertaining to the information please contact the school at your earliest convenience.
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Another year is upon us at the Sidney Gutierrez Middle School and the staff is excited to have the opportunity to continue creating an exciting and rewarding educational environment for the children of our community.
The Sidney Gutierrez Middle School charter was based on the well researched notion that small class sizes and small schools can develop community, which facilitates learning. In small schools and classes, students can have a significant impact on each other, the school and their own leadership ability.
The staff at Sidney Gutierrez believes that strong technology training, curriculum aligned to state content standards and benchmarks, and the integration of that training into every facet of learning, is essential to preparing students for the world they will face as adults.
The school recognizes the following components as paramount in achieving high students success:
- Standards-based Learning - School-wide implementation of state content and performance standards combined with quality curriculum, instruction, assessment and program evaluation;
- Student Support - High expectations for student learning and behavior; caring and respectful learning and working relationships; and safe, healthy, and supportive physical learning environment; and
- Responsiveness of System - Responsiveness to customers (students, parents and community); genuine engagement and collaboration with the community and effective communication.
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Purpose:
In order to provide you with information that will better assist you in monitoring your child?s work product, we have assembled this packet of information. In this document, you will find an explanation and example of the rubrics (guidelines) that are used to assess your child?s work products. As well, examples of most general types of assignment are included. By comparing your child?s work with the exemplars provided, you will have another tool to guide your student in his/her academic success.
Rubrics:
Perhaps you've watched competitions in which performances are given scores on a tenpoint rating scale. How does a judge arrive at a score? What makes one performance a "9" and another a "10"? In education, we must also rate student work. Rubrics are a tool for grading work that describes expectations clearly; rubrics describe what is evident in an "8" assignment and what was missing that would have led to a "10". A rubric provides a way for the teacher to give feedback about the quality of work by assigning point values to requirements and to the quality with which the requirements were displayed. Rubrics let students and teachers have a clear idea of what students should be able to know and do in order to demonstrate learning.
Rubrics are often given in the form of a checklist or a table. Most rubrics have more than one category being graded, such as accuracy of answer and grammar. Each category being graded will receive a score based on how well the category was addressed according to the given guidelines. The scores for each category are then added together to arrive at the points received out of the total points possible. Most rubrics reserve the highest scores in each category for advanced work such as excellent academic vocabulary (such as “multiply” rather than "times it") or additional examples beyond the minimum required. A rubric emphasizes the expectations of content and quality work that demonstrate a student's knowledge.
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