Every grading period has two grades, an effort grade and a grade on the project they've been working on. Try not to focus too much on the individual assignments that pertain to each student. The thing to pay attention to is the final score.
For grades 1 and 2, students receive a score of 3, 2, or 1. A score of 3 means your student does what is asked of them and is working hard in art class. If a student gets a score below 3, that means they are needing to work on a certain area, probably effort.
For grades 3 thru 5, students get an S-, S, S+, or O. If your student gets an S+. that means extra satisfactory. They are doing great in class, have great effort and are doing what is asked. I reserve the grade of O for students that go ABOVE AND BEYOND, working on their own time to give extraordinary effort or work on having extraordinary skill. Not very many students get the grade of O. If students get below an S+, they probably are not putting forth their greatest effort or they are having behavior problems in class.
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