What is the basic philosophy behind the Learning Record?
Teachers, by virtue of their close association with their students, develop an extensive knowledge of how their students are achieving. That knowledge is rich and highly contextualized: the teacher knows the history of a student’s growth in achievement, sees many things the student does and produces, and progressively builds up a large body of information. This information forms the basis of judgments about how much the student has learned, and the form that learning has taken. The Record provides a systematic way of tapping into that information, and of analyzing and reporting it.
