Get Your Community on Board with PBL Real-world learning is a big motivator in Project Based Learning. Most students respond positively when they have opportunities to tackle challenges or investigate issues that extend beyond the classroom walls. Make the most of these learning experiences by ensuring that community members are ready and willing to get involved in projects, too. Here are some strategies to help get your community on board with PBL. Lay the groundwork. Recruit content-area experts. Recruit community clients. Offer students as problem-solvers. Open your doors. Watch Hangout with BIE: Building Support for the 4 C's Suzie Boss, PBL blogger and author, discusses how to build support for an effort to explicitly teach and assess critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity with PBL.
Rubrics for Teachers - Assessment A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects. Quick Links to Rubrics Social Media Project Rubrics Wiki Rubric Criteria for assessing individual and group Wiki contributions. Blog Rubric Assess individual blog entries, including comments on peers' blogs. Twitter Rubric Assess learning during social networking instructional assignments. Discussion, Teamwork, and Cooperative Learning Rubrics Online Discussion Board Rubric Assessing ability to share perspectives, refine thoughts through the writing process, and participate in meaningful discussionPrimary Grade Self-Evaluation Teamwork Rubric (pdf) Features of a sandwich to graphically show the criteria Upper Elementary Teamwork Rubric Karen Franker's rubric includes six defined criteria for for assessing team and individual responsibility PowerPoint and Podcast Rubrics Web Page and ePortfolio Rubrics
Trading Card: Turn your photos into trading cards! Tons of fun stuff... Give one of our toys a spin! Cube, Color Palette Generator, Badge Maker, Billboard, CD Cover, Trading Card, Photobooth, FX, Mosaic Maker, Magazine Cover, Pop Art Poster, Map Maker, Movie Poster, Framer, Calendar, Motivator, Hockneyizer, Pocket Album, Bead Art, Mat, Jigsaw, Letter from Santa, Lolcat Generator, Wallpaper, I know, right? K-12 Rubrics | Common Core State Standards The Common Core State Standards have made it even more important for educators to assist students in making the connections between writing and reading through thoughtful and well-planned instruction, assignments and feedback. The Elk Grove Unified School District (EGUSD) created Common Core State Standards-aligned writing rubrics as a resource to assist teachers with this work. These rubrics are intended to help in instructional planning and to provide guidance in assisting students with the writing process. Permission to Use EGUSD Rubrics EGUSD’s CCSS writing rubrics have been requested by school districts and teachers across the nation and the world. Elk Grove Unified has provided our CCSS Rubrics below in Acrobat .pdf format with our district’s watermark and in Microsoft Word .doc format without. EGUSD CCSS Rubrics by Elk Grove Unified School District is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Downloadable Rubrics Kindergarten.pdf | .doc
10 Tips to Develop Persistence - Elusive Life Persist (intransitive verb, \pər-ˈsist, -ˈzist\ ): to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning. (via Merriam-Webster) Persistence is attributed by many as a crucial key to success. The ability to keep pushing ahead despite resistance, to get back up when we fall, and to detour when we find out path blocked – these are the embodiment of persistence. The problem is that, for most of us, persistence is not natural; we prefer instead to follow the path of least-resistance. The good news is that persistence is a trait that can be developed. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Start including these tips into your daily routine and you will find yourself inching closer toward your goals! What have you done in your own life to develop persistence and achieve your goals? “As long as there’s breath in you – PERSIST!” Image Credit: Flickr user pyjama
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11 Ways to Think Outside the Box Thinking outside the box is more than just a business cliché. It means approaching problems in new, innovative ways; conceptualizing problems differently; and understanding your position in relation to any particular situation in a way you’d never thought of before. Ironically, its a cliché that means to think of clichéd situations in ways that aren’t clichéd. We’re told to “think outside the box” all the time, but how exactly do we do that? How do we develop the ability to confront problems in ways other than the ways we normally confront problems? Thinking outside the box starts well before we’re “boxed in” – that is, well before we confront a unique situation and start forcing it into a familiar “box” that we already know how to deal with. Here are 11 ways to beef up your out-of-the-box thinking skills. 1. I’ve learned as much about teaching from learning about marketing as I have from studying pedagogy – maybe more. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
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Rubrics | Regina Public Schools This will be a page to share rubrics related to mastery of outcomes. This page will continue to develop throughout the 2012-2013 school year. If you have a rubric that you would like to share based on Saskatchewan ministry outcomes, please send to Laurie Gatzke. To access rubrics from the old RPS site click here. Rubrics are excellent tools to use when assessing students’ work. What is a Rubric? A rubric is an assessment tool that clearly indicates marking criteria. Holistic rubrics group several different assessment criteria and classify them together under grade headings (see Appendix A). How to Make a Rubric: Decide what criteria or essential elements must be present in the student’s work to ensure that it is high in quality. Variation: Developing Rubrics Interactively with Your Students You can enhance students’ learning experience by involving them in the rubric development process. How to Use Rubrics Effectively Develop a different rubric for each assignment.
5 Strategies for Fostering a Collaborative Culture in a PBL Classroom As a middle school teacher I understand that my students are at a developmental crossroads. They want to be seen as independent, responsible adults but at the same time still need guidance in order to be successful. This makes this age both challenging and rewarding to work with, as it allows me as a teacher to help them as they become the independent students they see themselves to be. It is not uncommon for teachers new to Project Based Learning to express skepticism or concern about “dropping the reins” and allowing students to take more control over the pace and scope of their learning. How to start this process is a common question. Although it can look different in every class, here are some possible approaches that may prove successful with your own students. Make sure team members know what is expected of them If not everyone is clear about the goals for the day or the tasks that they’ve been assigned, nothing will get done successfully.
Positive Attitude - Its Power and Benefits By Remez Sasson A Positive Attitude Leads to Success and Happiness. A positive attitude helps you cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worries and negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life, it would bring constructive changes into your life, and makes them happier, brighter and more successful. With a positive attitude you see the bright side of life, become optimistic, and expect the best to happen. Positive attitude manifests in the following ways: Positive thinking. A positive frame of mind can help you in many ways, such as: Expecting success and not failure. A positive attitude leads to happiness and success and can change your whole life. If this attitude is strong enough, it becomes contagious. Visualize and Achieve Your DreamsLearn how to turn your dreams into reality with simple creative visualization techniques. More Benefits of a Positive Attitude: It helps you achieve goals and attain success.
6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students What’s the opposite of scaffolding a lesson? Saying to students, “Read this nine-page science article, write a detailed essay on the topic it explores, and turn it in by Wednesday.” Yikes! No safety net, no parachute—they’re just left to their own devices. Let’s start by agreeing that scaffolding a lesson and differentiating instruction are two different things. Scaffolding is breaking up the learning into chunks and providing a tool, or structure, with each chunk. Simply put, scaffolding is what you do first with kids. Scaffolding and differentiation do have something in common, though. So let’s get to some scaffolding strategies you may or may not have tried yet. 1. How many of us say that we learn best by seeing something rather than hearing about it? 2. Ask students to share their own experiences, hunches, and ideas about the content or concept of study and have them relate and connect it to their own lives. 3. All learners need time to process new ideas and information. 4. 5. 6.