Economics 12
The Course
Welcome to our class website. Here you will find a slew of helpful links, tools, your assignments, PowerPoints, and handouts. You will also find videos and some multi - media tools.
What You Need
Sign - up for: Gmail, and be prepared to use Google Docs and Google Slides for this class. All will make your life incredibly easy.
Course Outline
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Above find a tentative course outline. Ive taught this course for numerous years, but have made changes this year updating material and altering the course for some online instruction. However, you can find the course syllabus here and included in that are your major evaluations for the term. The goal is for you to have 8 major evaluations. These are what are called Assessments of Learning (notes on the three types of assessments are below). The course is completely mapped out for this term. Feel free to look at the assessments.
There is also a Course Culminating Activity that is broken up into 2 parts and worth 30% of your overall grade.
There is also a Course Culminating Activity that is broken up into 2 parts and worth 30% of your overall grade.
Assessments
Assessment FOR learning is more commonly known as formative & diagnostic assessments. Assessment FOR learning is the use of a task or an activity for the purpose of determining student progress during a unit or block of instruction. Teachers are now afforded the chance to adjust classroom instruction based upon the needs of the students. Similarly, students are provided valuable feedback on their own learning.
Assessment OF learning is the use of a task or an activity to measure, record and report on a student's level of achievement in regards to specific learning expectations. These are often known as summative assessments. (Evaluations Above)
Assessment AS learning is the use of a task or an activity to allow students the opportunity to use assessment to further their own learning. Self and peer assessments allow students to reflect on their own learning and identify areas of strength and need. These tasks offer students the chance to set their own personal goals and advocate for their own learning.
Important: Although only assessments of learning are graded formally, both assessments for and as learning are taken into account when determining your final grade. Determining a final grade does not simply involve a computer calculating numbers, it involves my professional judgement of your learning taking into account both your most recent and your most consistant performance. That means I monitor, record and assess you throughout the term and all of those conversations and your performance on tasks that are not 'formally evaluated' are taken into account when determining your final grade in the course.
Assessment OF learning is the use of a task or an activity to measure, record and report on a student's level of achievement in regards to specific learning expectations. These are often known as summative assessments. (Evaluations Above)
Assessment AS learning is the use of a task or an activity to allow students the opportunity to use assessment to further their own learning. Self and peer assessments allow students to reflect on their own learning and identify areas of strength and need. These tasks offer students the chance to set their own personal goals and advocate for their own learning.
Important: Although only assessments of learning are graded formally, both assessments for and as learning are taken into account when determining your final grade. Determining a final grade does not simply involve a computer calculating numbers, it involves my professional judgement of your learning taking into account both your most recent and your most consistant performance. That means I monitor, record and assess you throughout the term and all of those conversations and your performance on tasks that are not 'formally evaluated' are taken into account when determining your final grade in the course.
Plagiarism
All work that you submit must be your own. Plagiarism is a type of cheating and includes copying from your friends, classmates, the Internet, books, or any other source. If you don’t know if you are plagiarizing, ASK before handing-in an assignment. Cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated; any assignment that is flagged as plagiarism will receive a mark of 0. Depending on the severity of the infraction, further consequences may be applied.