Facilitator

Dr. Tracie Addy, Associate Dean of Teaching & Learning, Director of CITLS

Description

The Ungrading Community of Practice will meet virtually to share and discuss approaches to ungrading. Instructors implementing ungrading practices, instructors contemplating trying out ungrading, as well as those supporting instructors using such approaches are welcome to attend. 

Objectives

• Learn about ungrading techniques and methods for implementing those practices
• Receive feedback from colleagues regarding which ungrading practices worked in their classrooms
• Find out about resources available to assist and guide you as you apply ungrading to your own classes

Resources

• Ungrading Pedagogy, Professor Christopher Phillips, 2020 – 2021 CITLS Distinguished Teaching Fellow
• Contemplating Ungrading: A Workshop, Professor Christopher Phillips, 2020 – 2021 CITLS Distinguished Teaching Fellow
• Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), Susan D. Blum

• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, bell hooks

• Linguistic Justice Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, April Baker-Bell

• We Want to Do More than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, Bettina Love

• Alternative Strategies for Assessment and Grading, Duke Learning Innovation
• A student perspective on contract grading, Taylor Lucas
• I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner, Elizabeth Gruner
• The Unintended consequences of ‘Ungrading’, Beckie Supiano

Ungrading Events

• Tuesday, May 24, 2022; 8:15 AM – 4:00 PM -“Learning Assessment, Evaluation, & Grading: Are we doing Justice?,” New England Faculty Development Consortium
• Friday, June 3, 2022 – Saturday June 4, 2022 -“The Grading Conference: Higher Ed STEM Focus,” College Bridge