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Amanda Martemucci
FIAE-Chapter 10: Chapter 10 focuses on how teacher should give students the opportunity to redo work for full credit. Allowing students to redo work allows them to practice their mastery. Furthermore, only giving them partial credit or the average between the two grades misses the point in allowing students to redo their work. I do believe that allowing students the opportunity to redo work is acceptable, but I also think it depends on the assignment. Small homework assignments, for example don’t necessarily need to be redone, especially if the grade for them doesn’t count for much. I also need to pay attention for students who will take advantage of the opportunity to redo work. I will need to make a cut-off for how many times a student can redo an assignment and also make deadlines to when they assignment needs to be redone by. Redoing an assignment should be an opportunity for a student to learn, not just get a better grade.

Bridget Ferry
Chapter 10: Conditions for Redoing Work for Full Credit In a differentiated classroom, it is appropriate to allow students to redo work for full credit. This allows the student another chance to display their mastery, and is only fair, because not everyone learns at the same rate, and therefore, not everyone is ready to demonstrate their mastery at the exact same time. The teacher gets the final say in if a student gets to redo their work or not. If it is apparent that the student waited until the last minute or put no effort into their work, then the teacher may not allow them to redo it. When students are allowed to redo their work, they need to sit down with the teacher and create a calendar that will help them get all their work done on time to better ensure success. The format of the redone work may not be the same as the first time around, so that way students don’t just memorize the test or the information- they have to learn it. I think this is a policy I will most certainly have in my classroom. In the real world, redoing work occurs all the time, and students should be allowed that same opportunity.

Chelsea
The book described different ways in which you can set criteria in allowing students to make up work. All redone work should be done at the discretion of the teacher, redoing work is a privilege and not a right. We should be willing give students extensions as well because it something that happens in the real world, granting extensions makes sure that the quality is right the first time and that the work does not have to be redone because it is half done. In order to keep parents informed about students progress, work should be signed by the parent and the parents should ask for the redo. As a teacher it is important that you reserve the right to change the format of the assignment, as long as showing of mastery is the same, Students should also attach the original task to the redone version as a way to show growth and understanding. In terms of grades as teacher we should not average the two grades together of redone work, the higher grade should be recorded as averaging does not show accurate mastery. It is important that as a teacher you outline you rules for redoing work in the beginning so that students are aware of your policy.

Kristen
At some point a student will need to or ask to redo a test or assignment for your class. The teacher needs to determine when this is appropriate and when it is not. The teacher also needs to provide the student with the appropriate knowledge and foundations to avoid having to redo a test or assignment again. Perhaps having a checklist would help them. Perhaps having a parent know the class rules will help them. If you must allow a student to redo a test or assignment for some reason have them identify what they did incorrectly in the first place and demonstrate how they avoided it in their make up work. This will help the student to demonstrate their knowledge and learning while also helping them to be more careful about looking over their work. At times it truly is appropriate to offer redos to students because, as Wormeli says, the "world is full of redos." (p.136)

Moe
One of the first lessons we are taught in this chapter is to be compassionate amidst moments of chaos in our students’ lives. We should treat them like we’d like to be treated as adults. I think this is important, especially in my class, because the students need to be ready to face real-world challenges as adults after high school. Building on the last chapter Wormeli talks about making Calendars of Completion with our students when they miss, or are late in, turning in homework. This forces them to plan out every step they are going to take to fix the problems. It adds to the philosophy that you can never give up on your students. When they do redo work, they should always hand in the original stapled to the back of the new copy. I thought this was always the case, but it makes sense because you can truly gauge if they worked on the redo or not.

Jesika
There will be a time in any teacher's career that a student will ask for a redo on their homework. This opportunity should be give to them... under certain conditions. Students may need the extra practice in the assignment in order to master the shills that you are trying to teach them. denying them that opportunity is a sure way to send the message that you don't care whether they understand the content or not. I will definitely implement a system for redoing homework. The student will need to show me that the genuinely trued the first time and then staple the old assignment to the new one. (addition: Just read Moe's response. Great minds think alike I guess.)

Christina
Chapter ten discusses how teachers should allow students to re-do work and assignments for full credit. This allows students to build mastery on the content and skills, if they did not understand it the first time around. Wormeli stresses that teachers need to have compassion for the student and their circumstances, and that as adults in life we get extra times or re-do's as well. However, the offer to complete re-do's on assignments should not be granted if students don't try the first time or wait till the last minute and come out with a product that does not show their full capability. When a student does this with the mindset that they can blow it off because they can always re-do it when they feel like it, then a re-do should not be an option. If students or a particular student show effort but constantly need to utilize the opportunity for re-dos, it can be an indicator to the teacher that the method they are using needs to be modified. I fully believe that students should have the ability to re-do an assignment. Students can have bad days or bad weeks that affect the quality of their work, or they may not have learned the content or built the skills at the same rate as other students.

Kevin
The purpose of this chapter is try to explain the question that the author left me asking in the last chapter: what are the conditions for allowing students to redo work for full credit? The first idea is to have some sort of contract and outline the procedure and include the teacher can rebuke the offer at his/her discretion. The author says that if he hears that a student waited till the last minute to do something he will not allow them to redo it. He says the best idea is to be merciful the first time and then if students appear to be abusing the system that means it needs to be modified. The author also states that the teacher should reserve the right to change the format for all redone work. This addresses the issue I initially had which is that some tests can be memorized. Another suggestion that seems helpful from a grading and time standpoint for the teacher is to not accept work to be redone during the last week of the grading period. Having students attach the original to the redone version also seems like a good strategy. In this way you can see what kind of progress the student has made. I think the best strategy for doing things this way is to start at the beginning of the year but make the students aware that you can rescind the offer any time you want if you feel as though it is being abused.