Chapter 13: Grade Book Formats for the Differentiated Classroom

This chapter talks about the importance of having an organized grade book in order to grade for mastery. While there were some different styles introduced, some more complex than necessary, I feel that the best way to organize the grade book is by date. Doing it any other way forces you to space out the grade book in such a way that there is room to add assignments that may get added later. Another important thing to remember is that a lot of schools have adopted the Power School program or some variation of it so the grades are all computerized. This is even more of a reason to keep the grade book in order by date, the computer can sort it the other ways if someone wants to see it set up differently.