Progress reports are a great tool that is used to determine how well students have done over the course of weeks or a period of months during a traditional school year. Progress reports are most commonly used by teachers and employers to help with keeping track of both students' and employee progress and work ethic throughout the time they spend with one another. Teachers and employers grade on
. performance amongst a list of other traits including attendance and communication or penmanship skills. Using a sample of a progress report as a teacher is possible by purchasing blank templates or by printing them for free from online resource sites for downloadable templates and educational materials.One website for downloadable and printable educational documents is Microsoft Office's official library of free template, including templates for academics and educators. On the Microsoft Office website with the academic templates, users are able to freely download the documents available from Weekly Progress Reports to Elementary and High School Book Report templates as long as they have Microsoft Office (Word or Excel) installed on their computers. The template files available on Microsoft Office's website work on both Windows and Mac computers as long as the proper software is installed prior to downloading the templates.Another option for a weekly progress report document is to visit the official Education World website (http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/WeeklyProgressReport.doc). Education World is complete with multiple templates and downloadable materials for teachers and those working in the education field. One of the progress report samples from Education World is a weekly progress report and includes fields for grades and also for comments from the teacher him or herself. The progress report sample from Education World includes a parental or guardian signature section and is ideal for those teaching young students such as those in elementary school. Education World does not require registration to download the templates, but the files are often in ".doc" format, requiring Microsoft Office programs such as Microsoft Word to load. More reference links: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT010117271.aspx http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/WeeklyProgressReport.doc
