I've had a few interesting conversations regarding skills students need in order to be successful but don't actually make it into the gradebook. You know, the homework-organization-studyhabits-notetaking type skills also known as "soft skills." I noticed that Shawn Cornally has "Investigation Standards" he uses in his class which makes me question the existence of a third set of skills that aren't necessarily content driven nor are they "soft." I suppose one could argue that investigation standards are appropriate to a science class as they are often times embedded into the content skills. But are there skills that are embedded into a math classroom that may or may not actually be figured into the grade of a student who has a teacher using SBG?
Where do things like: applying problem strategies, using multiple representations (Rule of 4) or showing multiple ways to work a problem fit into the grade book? These are the golden threads that run through all of our math courses so why wouldn't we measure them?
Do they deserve their own place in the gradebook? If so, how many of them are there and what are they?