I often use rubrics throughout my entire curriculum. I use a rubric for their interactive journals and the students also grade themselves before turning in their interactive science or social studies notebooks. I feel that it is important that the students understand how I am grading them. Also, I feel rubrics help students see what they need to strive for as well as what they can achieve. I like that the author used the chocolate chip cookie as an example. I agree that as humans, we are constantly judging events and objects around us. I never thought of using percentages because as an elementary school teacher, I have always used points since my students do not turn in huge assignments that are weighted differently than other assignments. This school year, my team and I collaborated and developed a rubric for our three topics in writing which was very helpful when I went to grade my students’ narratives last week. I felt like I could use it with every student since they knew the requirements beforehand. This rubric also allowed for teacher comments so I could annotate areas of improvement as well as their major strengths.
Chapter 13 - #2 on pg. 335: Some teachers in your school system feel that elementary-grade children are too immature to learn study skill techniques. How would you convince these teachers that this is not so?
My school is actually going through this scenario currently since we are establishing an after-school enrichment program that focuses on students improving their study skills and organizational skills. We first had to convince the other staff members since there were only 5 teachers (including myself) that felt there was a need for our students to be offered some sort of study skills program. We just held our first study skills workshop where we partnered with Huntington Learning Center. It went well and we had a great turn out. I think teachers are starting to get on board with this program because they are seeing how it is positively impacting their students’ overall grades and confidence levels. However, we are only offering this program to intermediate students (fourth and fifth graders) due to how crucial note-taking is in those two grades. We are taking teacher requests first then parental requests for this program. Our hope is that teachers, parents, and students will see a positive change in their study and organizational skills.
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