Expectatons about Learning
1) we accredit students, giving them grades that are important for the rest of their lives;
2) we want to teach students to become life-long learners which requires taking risks and forgetting about the grade;
3) we want to disappear as students take charge of their own learning in our classrooms;
4) salary increases and promotion depend upon students focusing on us as the source of knowledge and learning ("This was the best teacher I ever had").
I am about to dip into Barbara Walvoord, Virginia Anderson, Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment -- I hope this helps. Thanks everyone for a thought-provoking day.