Report Card Comments
For Teachers

Report Card Comments are a good Progress report, to assess a student’s academic performance and behavioral improvement. It may contain steady progression throughout the year or areas that a child may need help to develop. Report cards differ from one school to another.

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For Teachers

The IB report cards in some schools have developed their own way of presenting their teachers report card comments. The PYP report card comments  should contain the IB learner profile and attitude along with the achievements of a child.
 
Teachers in an IB school will not give report card comments based merely on the summative assessment, the teachers report card comments will be based on the overall performance of the child. Gone are the days when a teacher takes a calculator and starts computing the grades of a student. In an IB school the teacher takes everything into consideration when giving a comment, the Unit of Inquiry’s formative assessment, summative assessment, rubrics, attitude, profile and more.

Subject specialist report cards comments like Math and other disciplines should also include the IB learner profile and attitude.

Report Card Comments For Teachers

It is not easy to be an IB teacher, it requires a lot of passion, enthusiasm and not being skewed - especially when it comes to writing a progress report about a child.

 For some teachers writing a report card is easy but for most teachers, they dread the report card writing date. A lot of teachers feel stumped completing the comment sections - particularly those teachers who have 20 students or more in a class. They may end up losing time by checking students’ report card discrepancy, and receive a ranting from the parents. Some teachers are very fortunate, they have less than 15 students in a class, which makes it is easier for a teacher to communicate the report to the parents.

A Few Suggestions For Teachers:

• Decide on a progressive portfolio for your class. It will help you to look back at what the child has done from when you introduced the unit or topic until the summative assessment.


• Keep the class learning expectations as your base when writing a comment. Give a degree of mastery of the learning expectations or learning outcomes, and provide the next step that the child should take to continue achieving.


• Be honest with your comments. Highlight the progress and achievements that the child made and turn negative comments into more favorable ones.


• Use the classic sandwich technique when writing comments (positive, low trait and positive).

The available report card comments For Teachers on our Teaching Resources page have adjectives, words, phrases that would be appropriate for all grade levels and is also applicable for homework and library report card comments. It will minimize the gigantic task of teachers writing report card comments.




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