The Progress Report Card is an opportunity to focus on the growth and the progress your students are making toward the overall expectations. The emphasis is on assessment for, and as, learning. Teachers will report student progress by checking one of the indicators that most accurately reflects student progress in relation to the overall curriculum expectations through the lens of the "achievement chart" categories. For example, the progress report card provides these indicators:

• Progressing with Difficulty
• Progressing Well
• Progressing Very Well

Comments on the Progress Report Card will provide parents with personalized, clear, and meaningful feedback. Teachers will use the following three guiding questions to frame their comments for parents:

• What were students expected to learn?
• How do I know they learned it?
• What will we do to support continued learning?

The Progress Report Card comments included in this bank are a compilation of comments written and used by teacher members. The comments provided cover only a few grade levels, but you are encouraged to adapt them as you feel necessary to your grade level and subject area. OECTA’s report card bank will continue to grow to include comments in all grade levels. We welcome future submissions of progress report card comments. OECTA cannot make any assertions that these comments will be acceptable at every board or school, and encourages teachers to refer to your local Growing Success policies before preparing your own comments.

Subjects

Arts	Geography	Health	History
Dance	Geography	Active Living	History
Drama		Healthy Living
Music		Movement
Visual Arts
Language	Math	Science	Social Studies
Media Literacy	Data Management	Earth and Space	World Connections
Communication	Geometry	Life Systems	Heritage and Citizenship
Reading	Measurement	Matter and Energy
Writing	Number Sense	Structures and Mechanisms
	Patterning and Albegra

 

Suggestions for Writing Comments

• Clearly state the subject (e.g., In Math...)
• Use the language of learning goals from your class to help make comments parent-friendly
• Personalize your comments by making reference to a project/task
• Use clear and specific feedback based on success criteria that students used in class when describing next steps
• In most boards, teachers are only required to comment on Language and Math
• French /Native Language (as applicable), and they are not required to report on all subject areas, but check with your board and school to determine local variations to this practice.
• When the Progressing with Difficulty box is checked on any subject area a comment is expected
• Develop a repertoire of verbs and descriptors that help to clarify comments in language that are parent-friendly. See below for a list of sample words: