My Slice of Life for March 3. See the Two Writing Teachers Blog for more information.
I just finished writing a rubric for the dinosaur project that most of the students completed last week. Yes - I know that I should complete the rubric first and share it with the students. I certainly shared all the elements with the students, but they did not have the requirements on a piece of paper. I decided that I needed a piece of paper to help share my thoughts with their parents. This is actually the first year that the students each made a poster. Previously, it was a project developed to focus on research, cooperative skills, speaking skills and multiple intelligences. Each group worked together to make a poster. As requirements changed, the project evolved. Now research skills are a different assessment whereas they used to be included with the writing assessments. A teacher must always be flexible.
2 comments:
I completed my full-time teaching stint just at the start of rubrics. I wonder what my life would have been like with them?
Bonnie
The kids' posters look great, and so does your rubric. I haven't shared any of mine with my students. We've looked at the scoring rubric for the GED essay but not at any of the ones I use for the rest of our work. Maybe I should let them in on my 'secret'? It would be interesting to hear their thoughts.
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