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Delaying the Grade: How to Get Students to Read Feedback

…tried this with students, I put the following directions up on the board when I returned the essays: Read over your whole essay, including what you wrote and my comments. Write THREE observations based on your reading and TWO follow-up questions to discuss with me at our conference. Ask about comments, how to improve things, how to do things differently, etc. Use the rubric (posted online) to grade yourself. Be ready to discuss all of this. I now incorporate these instructions into the student copy of the rubric. Below is one page of that rubric, which includes the reflection section….

Episode 249 Transcript

…GONZALEZ: Maybe that teacher allows for redo’s and revise your grade or whatever, but it’s still very grade driven. Now those grades could also be based on a rubric. I know that as an English teacher myself, that was, most of my biggest assignments had rubrics with them. But you’re saying that with competency-based teaching, it’s, everything kind of comes from a rubric. MESSER: Everything comes from a rubric and is looked at in progression over time. So if you’re not able to process learning at a super high level, you’re entry level right now, okay, so we want you…

Episode 167: Co-Constructing Success Criteria

…in each other’s work and go back to. In the same form, it’ll then help the kids be more able to self-assess themselves because they know what they’re doing, they know what they’re looking for. They’ve seen models of success before they started. They had opportunities to ask questions, and now they have a clear understanding of what the expectations are and how to be successful. Rubrics will likely come up. People who are listening might say, well, don’t rubrics do that? To a certain degree, yes, but rubrics are problematic in a lot of ways and that’s definitely a…

Episode 55: Your Top 10 Genius Hour Questions Answered

…the recommended way of grading Genius Hour is actually to grade the process. Grade what I kind of just shared with you in how they work through the process. There’s a rubric that has kind of caught fire. I shared it on my blog a number of years ago. It’s in the book. It’s a fantastic rubric. It’s called the GRIT rubric. It’s an acronym, and it stands for guts, resiliency, integrity, tenacity. And what the GRIT rubric does is it allows you to grade the process of students each and every time they come in or overall on, basically,…

How Accurate Are Your Grades?

…them the grade the rubric shows. I would love to hear your opinions and ideas on rubrics and how they can be leveraged to provide more complete and useful information to students as well as more practical approaches to rubric creation. Debbie Sachs Hi! Thanks so much for sharing. If you haven’t already, check out Jenn’s posts Know Your Terms: Holistic, Analytic, and Single-Point Rubrics and especially, Meet the #SinglePointRubric. You may also want to take a look at the resources on her Assessment & Feedback Pinterest board to see if you find anything relevant to your needs. Jennifer L….

Build it Together: Co-Constructing Success Criteria with Students

…language, also known as I Can Statements, which can be placed in visible locations around the classroom. As the learning cycle progresses, the teacher can refer back to these statements, connecting them to the language of the standards, so everyone is familiar with and fluent in that language at all stages of the assignment. 2. Study and annotate the assignment. At the beginning of a project or learning cycle, give students the prompt or assignment that they are going to be working on; this may also include a rubric (Sackstein prefers to use rubrics that only state the target criteria,…

Backward Design: The Basics

…test where students merely label the moon phases, but a student-developed model of the moon phases along with some kind of presentation where students use that model to explain lunar phases, eclipses, and seasons. When designing this final assessment, it’s essential that the teacher crafts a rubric that clearly outlines specific, high standards for both the model and presentation. The rubric should list criteria for the accuracy and functionality of the model, plus the quality of the presentation itself. Here’s an example of what that might look like: With a good rubric in place, we then work backwards to determine…

Power Lesson: “This I Believe” Essays

…the author, Cynthia Ruiz. From what we understand, she is no longer in the classroom. However, you may be able to connect with her on Twitter by clicking on the Twitter icon at the top of the post underneath Cynthia’s name. If you are looking to create your own rubric, the section of this post called Assignment Guidelines links to the NPR website where Cynthia found the writing guidelines that she used as a basis for her own. In addition, there is another Cult of Pedagogy post on the single-point rubric, which you might find useful. I hope this helps!…

Episode 131: How World Language Teaching Has Evolved

…BLOUWOLFF: And so even if you’re not quite there with your rich vocabulary or your accuracy, if you can push yourself on that text type piece and try to expand those baby sentences into complex sentences and then stretch those sentences into string sentences, you are pushing yourself in the right direction. GONZALEZ: Got it. So you had an example of, of this type of a feedback and what it kind of could look like. BLOUWOLFF: Absolutely. So I try to assess all major pieces of work using a rubric, and I found this rubric called the TALK rubric from…