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6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2017

…has given feedback to whom can be frustrating and time-consuming. Peergrade takes care of a few of these issues. Originally created for use at universities, it’s a platform where students can evaluate each other’s work anonymously. After the teacher creates an assignment and a rubric, students submit their work. Next, Peergrade randomly distributes the assignments to different classmates for evaluation. Students give feedback to their classmates using the rubric set up by the teacher; they can add written comments as well as selecting options from the rubric. Finally, students can view the feedback given to them; they can rate the…

Boost Your Assessment Power with GradeCam

…questions, so you can quickly determine which areas need more attention. You can choose from Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, ACT College Readiness Standards, and National Foreign Language Standards. Custom standards are available in the school/district plan (described below). Credit assignments: Quickly record items that get points for completion, such as a daily journal entry or bell-ringer. Rubric with capture: Scan assessments that require you to manually grade them, like open-response items, and convert them to digital images. This allows you to assess student work on the go without needing to carry home lots of paper. Using the rubric…

Episode 62: The Apollo School

…those earlier in the project. So they’re given pretty much a blank slate of a rubric, and then they identify which thinking skills they’re focusing on, and as Greg mentioned, last year we had eight soft skills to choose from, but this year we’ve kind of assigned these two, communication and time management. So that’s always part of the rubric as well. And with those two pieces, the soft skills, we simply look back to our clipboard. We keep a daily tally of how often students are meeting with us, whether that’s in our mini lessons or those one-on-one lessons…

Classroom Materials

…year after year to create graphic organizers, rubrics, and course syllabi. Click here to see all templates. Assignment Rubrics For those smaller, repetitive tasks. Instead of grading every assignment individually, assess overall work habits by scoring work in batches with this holistic rubric. A teacher’s manual is included to explain the process. Click here to view the elementary rubric. Click here to view the secondary/college rubric. Reflecting on Your Practice This category features two tools to reflect on your teaching practice. The Gut-Level Teacher Reflection is a 5-question exercise that helps you tap into your emotions and physical response to pinpoint exactly…

Episode 126: Student-Written Graphic Novels

…single point rubric for, for the project, which we’ll talk about just in a moment when we get to assessment. But as students are creating their projects, I devote class time to that, to them creating it. And also something I know you’ve talked about a lot on your podcast is, you know, I’ll use your, the term you’ve used, dog fooding, is I’ll, I’ll go ahead and model it, you know, for like a five-minute do now in the beginning of class over the course of a week, I’ll create a couple of panels of my own graphic novel…

Instruction and Assessment Videos

…with Rubric Codes Do you have a mountain of student writing to grade? A pile of extended responses that have been sitting in your passenger seat for a week? Do you wish you had more time to give students better feedback? This technique will show you how to take a shortcut in grading without losing any of the quality. Read our full article on how to speed up grading with Rubric Codes. Back to Top Teaching Text Structures for Non-Fiction Reading Teachers of history, science, and other subjects are now expected to weave literacy instruction into their teaching of…

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…

Are You Broadcasting on Too Many Channels?

…state that students must use the attached rubric to score themselves when they are finished. But when the papers are turned in, a third of the class has left the rubric totally blank. HOW DARE THEY? The instructions were right in front of them. WHY DON’T THEY READ WHAT’S RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM??? Okay, maybe some of them are lazy – that’s the assumption, right? But it’s also possible that when you handed out the prompt, you talked intermittently for 2 minutes, so that many students couldn’t really concentrate on the written instructions. When you finished talking, some kids felt…

How ELA and Special Ed Collaboration Can Produce Great Student Writing

…can be especially valuable if generated by the class. Revisiting writing with a rubric (all the R’s!) can be fun to do in peer-revision stations, where peers are assigned a specific aspect of the rubric to give the writer feedback on. Another tip: I often instruct students who struggle with sentence boundaries, to re-read their piece backward, from the last sentence to the first. This eliminates the memory of what they think they have said and lays bare the sentences as they were written. Students tend to go, “Oh yeah, this is definitely too long to be one sentence!” 11….