When I first started teaching I didn't think about how I was going to review student work until I sat down to do so. It wasn't until my second semester that I realized how ridiculous that was! I finally figured out that giving students rubrics produced better student products and made grades easier to justify. Sitting down to those papers wasn't quite as scary anymore.
While I'm primarily interested in Science related rubrics, I want to look at as many rubrics as I can possibly find in any subject! I'd like to learn more about using rubrics within the Math classroom. If anyone out there in the intermediate/middle school grades would be willing to share their most successful rubrics - I'd really appreciate it.
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Hey Jenny - It's so funny that you wrote about how you never used to think about student work until you sat down to grade it. That's exactly what I used to do as well. Of course, I always considered and new exactly what I was assigning, and I guess I had a vision of what I wanted the finished product to look like, but I always kept that image to myself. I did always hand out a sheet with the description and requirements of the project but never spelled out or broke down the eval. Now that I've created this rubric, I have a much better sense of what I want my students to do. Has creating rubrics altered the way you assign the original task? Do your rubrics have to align with standards, or do they align? That's the next step for me I think.
Yes I agree, the rubric is the way to go and I really am glad that there are so many resources out there to help write GOOD rubrics, because there sure are a lot of bad ones too! And also when I was creating my rubric the idea of my assigmnet evolved. That is what we were told in teacher school, what is the objective (learning target)and then design the lesson plan around the objective. So in designing the rubric I think we have a clearer idea of what the lesson should hold.
I really like the way rubrics simplify a complex process. There are so many things to think about when creating a multimedia presentation. With a rubric, the kids can use the 'Wow!' column as a checklist as to what needs to be done.
I teach 7th grade math and use a few rubrics to evaluate things like reflections, classwork, and presentations or activities. My students use a simple rubric to evaluate their investigation teammates' participation at the end of each investigation. A couple of these rubrics have been adapted from what I used at the high school level.
Rubric = clarity = happy teachers and kids... could it get any better? LOL
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