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How to Set Up Mastery-Based Grading in Your Classroom

…To support this process, a number of educators build rubrics for their mastery checks to ensure the grading process is as efficient as possible and the evidence is clear when a student needs to be reassessed. Many educators build multiple forms of each mastery-check to allow for easy reassessment. This is highly contingent on the content area. For example, in math classes where students are learning about factors, it is quite straightforward to build multiple forms of the same mastery check. Alternatively, in an English class where students are learning about character and theme, it may make more sense to…

Does Your School Need a Literacy Check-Up?

…tools for non-ELA classes, as shown in the next example. Click images to open larger view. Click here to make a copy of this tool for your Google Drive. Middle & High School Non-ELA: Writing Instruction This tool is designed to be used in non-ELA classes and combines environment and instruction. This tool makes clear that when assigning writing in any class, the use of exemplars and rubrics is necessary. It also reminds teachers that resources like word walls and reference materials are needed in all classrooms to support content-area learning. This tool would be excellent to use if your…

5 Fantastic Ideas for Collaboration Projects

…As part of the solution development process, students can interview people who are most impacted by the problem and those in positions to implement solutions. They can also research the pathways taken by ordinary citizens to turn ideas for solutions into reality. Making it all Work Any kind of collaboration can be full of potential pitfalls. Our tips for solving common cooperative learning problems can help. Marisa Thompson (who shared the retrospective video idea) wrote an article that offers tips from students on designing collaborative activities that work. PBLWorks has a great set of free collaboration rubrics that outline specific…

Build a Collaborative Classroom with Microsoft Teams

…Excel, and OneNote are built right into the platform, so you can create with these tools and assign students to do the same. Create, save, and use rubrics to assess student work: The rubric builder is customizable and allows users to add written feedback and go back and adjust a score later. (Microsoft is also working on adding single-point rubric capabilities to the tool!) With the rubric feature in Teams, you can create robust rubrics, use them to assess student work, and save them to reuse or adapt for other assignments. App Integrations I love this feature: When you…

Episode 5: 20 Percent Time with A.J. Juliani

…for that. Gonzalez: Okay. So that does contribute to their overall grade in the course then? Juliani: I mean I didn’t do that, but a lot of the teachers use some type of rubric. There’s a genius hour rubric that Denise Krebs has created that I’ve included in my book. So there are some other rubrics out there that people have used. Gonzalez: Okay, and so thinking about how you first got this started, and what you know now, if you could go back to that first year with that eleventh grade group, what would you do differently? Juliani: I…

Episode 13: Could You Teach Without Grades?

…this is nothing new. For my ninth graders though, I spend quite a lot of time actually in class giving them time to write, giving them feedback. So if we finish something and I’m like “Okay I want you guys to reflect on how you did on that last news article that you wrote based on the rubrics that you got.” Because I do like a rubric checklist with the standards. So like for headline it would have something to do with finding the main idea. And I try to align the different parts of a news article with the…

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Episode 126: Student-Written Graphic Novels

…studied the devices, it, it does get easier. MILLER: Right, right. Yeah. I mean to grade them I was essentially doing like a hundred close readings of, of all the, you know, with over a hundred students. So, but you’re right, no. It does. You do develop a fluency with that. GONZALEZ: Yeah. MILLER: Through teaching it and studying it with your students. GONZALEZ: So we are going to be sharing all of this stuff over on the website too, so people can see examples of your students’ panels and some of the actual sort of rubrics and, and the…

Finding the Funk: 3 Ways to Add Culturally Responsive Critical Thinking to Your Lessons

…prove it wrong, extend it to the point of absurdity, evaluate it, or revise it. Making a rule seems natural for patterns in math class. But how often do world language teachers allow students to create a rule for irregular verb conjugations based on those type of patterns? There is nothing stopping third graders from designing their own rubrics for what makes a good paragraph “good” based on their analysis of paragraphs written at various levels of quality. China recently banned children from playing video games during the week and drastically limited their access during the weekends. What might a…