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Self-Paced Learning: How One Teacher Does It

…prompt and a rubric. Each skill listed in the rubric would align with a specific learning target. Step 3: Create the Chapter Guide Following the model shown above, set up a guide that shows which assessment question aligns with each learning target, then lists book or video lessons students can follow to learn each skill, exercises that will give students independent practice with the skill, and a brief assessment students can take to test their mastery. Step 4: Give the Pre-Test Use the assessment you created in Step 2 to pre-test students on the skills for this unit. Use the…

A Few Creative Ways to Use Student Blogs

…it’s important to define the criteria by which you’ll assess it. I strongly recommend you use a single-point rubric for assessing blogs; share the criteria with students ahead of time or better yet, co-construct the criteria with them. Below are some criteria I think would be important to include in a rubric for student blogs. I’m sure there are many excellent blogging rubrics out there that address some characteristics I haven’t thought of, but this is what I have so far: Purpose and Audience: The overall focus is clearly defined and consistent throughout the blog. Individual blog posts have a…

Words Matter: Language-Affirming Classrooms for Code-Switching Students

…speak specifically to their approach, but language-based standards and the accompanying assessments are intended to guide teachers in supporting students’ language acquisition. Just as WIDA or English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards build proficiency in language skills and simultaneously support students in acquiring proficiency in content-area standards, linguistically inclusive pedagogy enhances (not competes with) the communication and academic goals we set for our students by developing self-esteem, socialization, criticality, and self-determination. Andrea Castellano Tai, Rubrics are great because they’re so adaptive. I happen to prefer the simplicity of the learning progression rubric detailed here in this post: Introducing the HyperRubric: A…

Dogfooding: How Often Do You Do Your Own Assignments?

…your students, try doing it first to make sure you aren’t asking for too much. Joanne Marks (@joannemarks), an elementary science teacher in Gulfport, Mississippi, assigned her students to research the life of a famous scientist and display their findings on a cereal box. After explaining the requirements and reviewing the rubric, she told them she would bring in an example the next day. “So I took it home and started doing the project,” she says. “I got halfway through and I was like, oh my gosh, this is way too much for the amount of time I have allowed.”…

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 26: Interview with an Instructional Coach, Part 1

…you get assigned to a person, do—How do you start that relationship with them? Do you just sort of make an e-mail contact or phone call or how does it get started? Bridgers: Alright, well with instructional coaching at a school, the principal will generally decide who they’re going to pair you up with and that’s usually based on their performance data. So they have a rubric that they assess teachers on and so it’s like “Here’s my teachers that are struggling. Here’s my teachers that are right on the cusp and they just need a little one on one…

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…

Episode 122: A Simple Trick for Success with One-Pagers

…about the template, just let them flip it over or grab a blank piece of paper. There’s no reason for them to use it if they don’t want it. It’s just supposed to help. So once you have your requirements and you have your template, I find it’s a lot simpler to grade this kind of thing if you have a rubric. So I would create a simple rubric. Think about the categories that work for you and for your discipline. I used textual analysis, required elements, and thoroughness, but it’s always nice to have a sort of clear description…

What is 20 Percent Time? A Conversation with A.J. Juliani

…Education. Designing 20% Time in Education This 2013 article on setting up 20% time in your classroom provides a comprehensive collection of research, related articles, and other resources to get you started. GRIT Rubric The GRIT Rubric A.J. mentions in the interview is one way teachers measure student effort and work habits during 20 percent time. If you want to add more structure and accountability to this time, this would be a great resource. Websites 20 Time in Education Genius Hour Genius Hour / 20% Time Livebinder Books The links in this section are Amazon affiliate links; we receive a small commission on purchases…