Proficiency levels will indicate your child’s current progress in mastering each standard. Your child’s teacher will indicate which proficiency level your child has attained in each standard for every trimester.
Meeting Standard (MS)
The student has demonstrated an understanding of all the knowledge and skills within the standard and can apply the skill without help from the teacher; “Meeting Standards” is the goal for each student by the end of the year.
Approaching Standard (AS)
The student is beginning to grasp and apply key concepts, processes, and skills with the help of the teacher; The student is demonstrating progress toward mastery of the standard.
Needs Support (NS)
The student has demonstrated progress toward foundational skills of the standard. The student requires significant support in attaining mastery of the standard.
*Exceeding Standard (ES)
The student has not only demonstrated mastery of the knowledge and skills within the standard, but can fluently and creatively apply the knowledge and skills in a variety of performance challenges and consistently shows evidence of higher-order thinking.
*It is important to remember that “Exceeding Standards (ES)” on the standards-based report card does not equal an “A” in the traditional grading method. The proficiency levels reflect whether a child’s performance on key assignments typically exceed, meet, fall somewhat below, or fall significantly below standards. In prior reporting, an “A” may have meant that a child met all the standards for the test or assignment; in the new report card, this would be represented by “Meeting Standards.” An “ES” on the new report card means that a student is regularly able to demonstrate a level of skill and understanding beyond the proficiency standard for his or her grade level.