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- How-to Create a Rubric for SummariesAn explanation for teachers on how to create a rubric to grade student summaries.
Designing a Webquest to Build Teamwork Skills Among Middle School StudentsThis is a lesson plan that uses literature to enhance cooperative learning and to build teamwork skills among middle school level (grades 7-8) students.- How to Create and Use an Assessment RubricRubrics are scoring guides to help teachers assess and grade student assignments. Learn how to create and use your own rubrics.
The Problem with Grading by RubricThere exist numerous reasons why rubrics are really the bane of education, from grade inflation to unfair methods.
Designing RubricsThe performance criteria for a learning activity may be created and placed in an educational rubric. The criteria placed in the rubric direct refer to the current standards and benchmarks used by the school district.- Series of Rubrics for Courses with Writing and Public Speaking ComponentsThese rubrics would be helpful for teachers, instructors, and professors that need to fairly critique their students' work.
- Engineering Notebook RubricA rubric for high school teachers of pre-engineering programs to use for evaluation of students' engineering notebooks.
- How to Make a Rubric for Classroom AssessmentThis how to article discusses how teachers can make quick and easy rubrics for their classroom assessments.
- Grading with a Rubric: A Useful Homeschool Scoring ToolTips on creating and using a rubric scoring tool for homeschooling.
- Optional Activities for an ELA (English Language Arts) Response Journal RubricImprove student response with a fully developed rubric for optional activities to students to complete in English Units. 50 activities for educators to select from to create blocked assignment check off cards.
Rubrics: Objective Assessment or Just Another Subjective Way to Assess StudentsHow exactly does one assess the difference between sophisticated language and effective language? How do you distinguish between meets all requirements and goes beyond the requirements.- Research-based Tactics Used in Teaching Special EducationTeachers need to recognize that learning includes specific tactics for improving students' beliefs about their abilities and how and when to recognize them when they achieve them
- Configuring a Fair Creative Writing Rubric in Middle SchoolHow does one grade creativity fairly? Is it even possible in a Creative Writing class? I have designed a blueprint that undoubtedly will go through several permutations but can be utilized as a suggested starting point.
- Managing Hands-On Cooperative Group ActivitiesManaging Hands-On Cooperative Group Activities well ensures that students get the most out of the experience. If you don't plan ahead by addressing the issues noted below ahead of time, chaos may reign. Yikes.
Word of the Day: RubricConformity keeps me from being my true self. Who set up these rules??- Easy-to-Grade Writing Assignment for EnglishYour students will write and reflect on their work while you will grade fewer papers. Honestly, what's not to love about this assignment?
- Impress and Engage: Creating Interest Centers for Any ClassroomBuilding on previous articles, you are walked through the four steps to creating your own interest center. While it does take effort and work, you'll feel accomplished after making one of your own. Warning: it can get addictive!
- Procedures and Steps on Conducting a Meeting in the Knights of the AltarHow to conduct a meeting in the Knights of the Altar.
- Ranks and Officers of the Knights of the AltarThe officers and ranks of the knights of the altar.
- Kids and ConsequencesHow too much control of our kids behavior is holding them back.
Fractured Fairytale Lesson Plan for Grades 2-4This is language arts, reading, and art lesson plan based on Scieszka and Lane's "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales."
Psychology, Philosophy, Culture and Post-ModernismWhile comparing and contrasting epistemological frameworks is great for philosophical debate, formulating relativist rubrics to determine what constitutes health in biological organisms is dangerous for public health.- Sample Narrative Writing Midterm Exam Instruction SheetThis is a sample instruction sheet for the narrative writing midterm exam.
- "It Could Have Been Worse!"This decade's all-purpose emolument for screw-ups. Has there been a infrastructure failure, product recall, campus massacre, natural disasters, recession, crime statistic or public policy failure for which that phrase is not applied?
Chart the Animal Speeds in WaterUsing data to create charts and then being able to visualize the data is an important educational goal that students may need for mandated state testing.- Principles for K-6 Centers: Organize and Manage Rotational Learning CentersRubric for center work in a variety of learning environments.
Assigning Group Projects: Teacher TipsThe burning question is how do teachers, in assigning group work, keep one student from doing all the work?- How to Do Well in College Level English CoursesA college English teacher explains six techniques that help students get good grades in college English.
Hiring - An Important Component to Educational SuccessThe interview questions can search for values and philosophy beyond simple teaching technique and the hiring manager may be able to assess a teacher-candidate's experiences beyond basic qualifications.
