Live interactive audience participation | Poll Everywhere. Three Digital Portfolio Styles - And Tools for Making Them. This post originally appeared in my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter and on my Practical Ed Tech website. This week I am working with a group of teachers who want to have their middle school students create digital portfolios that they will maintain throughout the school year. The first part of our work will be to decide what artifacts they want students to put into their portfolios and how they want those artifacts displayed. To guide that work I've broken various digital portfolio tools into three style categories. Simple, Shareable Folders This style is the least aesthetically pleasing but it can be the easiest way to get started. In this style students use Google Drive folders, OneNote notebooks, Dropbox folders, or a similar type of online storage tool that lets them share folders with you.
It is important to note that if you decide to use this style you need to develop a folder structure and naming conventions that all of your students must follow. Here's a video overview of SeeSaw. Assessment Hub - NFER. How to Use YouTube Video Essays in the Classroom. Like many of you, I've been thinking a lot lately about how we can better prepare students to be thoughtful, responsible, and critical consumers and creators. While I don't have all the answers, I've come to one conclusion: Media-literacy education must deal with YouTube. Ninety-one percent of teens use YouTube. That's 30 percent more than use Snapchat (61 percent), the next closest social media competitor, and even more than use tech we think of as ubiquitous, like Gmail (79 percent).
What's more, YouTube is a unique beast and can't just be tacked on. What Are YouTube Video Essays? YouTube video essays are long-form (relative to many other internet videos) critical videos that make arguments about media and culture. Why Are They Great for Learning? It's easy to dismiss a lot of what circulates on YouTube as frivolous, silly, or even obnoxious, but video essays are the opposite. How Can They Be Used in Classrooms? Copyright lesson: Video essays are a great example of fair use. Nerdwriter. Pear Deck - Google Slides add-on. Edutopia. As I contemplated the writing assignment for our required reading of The Odyssey, I was filled with dread at the thought of reading 120 uninspired essays in which my ninth graders would dutifully recount details from the epic.
Essay grading is tedious work, and I’m convinced that the hours we spend grading papers are the least effective way to positively impact students. So I considered a framing question from the first edition of Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s Understanding by Design: “To what extent does the idea, topic, or process represent a ‘big idea’ having enduring value beyond the classroom?” I decided that the enduring value students should get from the assignment was not directly about The Odyssey at all—I wanted them to recognize how the literary archetypes we had studied in connection with the epic are found in other stories. From there, I wanted them to realize that understanding how archetypes work could help them form a deeper appreciation of the people around them. 1. 2.
Examples of Rubrics - University of Wisconsin Stout. Examples of Rubrics Grading rubrics precisely describe performance expectations. Rubrics offer explicit criteria to help students meet learning objectives. Rubrics also make meaningful feedback and evaluation more efficient. The sample rubrics below address discussion, eportfolios, group projects, blogs, wikis, and more! Learn more about rubrics and alternative assessments in our Online Courses, Online Certificate Programs, and Graduate Degree Presentation Rubrics Podcast RubricAnn Bell's rubric helps students assess what makes a good podcast. PowerPoint Rubric10 performance categories Oral Presentation Rubric (Word doc) VoiceThread Participation Rubric (pdf)Michelle Pacansky-Brock's general formative assessment is used when students view a mini video lecture/presentation.
Oral Presentation Checklist4Teachers.org provides an online tool to customize the checklist for your grade level Oral PresentationMidlink Magazine's assessment of 6 performance areas (middle school) Poster Rubric Quick Rubric. Research Process Rubric. Assessing students as they read, research, & respond in Hypothesis. I’ve spent a lot of time recently writing about how I use Hypothesis in my own research and writing, and also in my classes with students. In various blog posts here on this website, and also videos on my YouTube channel, I’ve detailed how and why I use this as an assessment, and tool to guide students in their reading and discussions. In this post I want to provide some granular advice on how I frame the use of Hypothesis for students, and some of the rubrics I use in this process. Please keep in mind that this is a moving target. That is to say that I have been changing my expectations for Hypothesis as they relate to student discussion and assessment.
As I continue to use the tool and platform, I believe my thinking and rationale will continue to change. How I explain Hypothesis to my students The way I view Hypothesis is that you’re keeping a trail of breadcrumbs as you read online. The bookmarks solution doesn’t work (for me) because we rarely go back to review this information. Embedding authentic reading assessments into your class using Hypothesis. Vocal Recall - Attach Audio to QR Codes. Edutopia. New Year, New Goals, New and Improved Reading Log. Way back in January 2017, I was trying to figure out how to do more with keeping track of my reading beyond the basics that Goodreads could provide. Enter: my handy, dandy reading log on Google Sheets. I started tracking everything from title and author to the gender, sexuality (if known), race, and nationality of authors and characters. I tracked how much I read (or listened to) and in what formats (helpful since my reading went nearly 100% digital after June). The reading log worked and I kicked my own reading goals in the tuchus: I finished Read Harder AND the Litsy AtoZ challenges, and not only finished 50 books for the year, but beat it by more than 150%.
Some of the categories I tracked worked great—I kept a close eye on my gender breakdown and managed to hit more than 75% books by women for 2017—and some not so much—figuring out an author’s nationality can be really hard. Click here to view the tracker. The genres category has a broad list in the drop down: Educational Leadership:Getting Personalization Right:Personalization and UDL: A Perfect Match. Reflection. Hit the Mark With Digital Media Exit Cards. In my first year of teaching English, I had to teach prepositions to sixth graders. I fumbled around for an entry point and reached out to a more seasoned colleague, who suggested that I employ the analogy of the rabbit and the log. The approach was simple: Draw a picture of a log on the board and a rabbit on a piece of paper and then place the rabbit in different positions in relation to the log. This would draw out the use of prepositions—“the rabbit is on the log” versus “the rabbit is in the log” or “the rabbit is beside the log.”
It sounded like a sensible approach. Rabbit-and-Log Syndrome I went into the class and did as he had explained. The next day, I had to leave early to coach a soccer game, so I asked my department chair if she could cover my class. “What’s wrong?” She chuckled and then moved into the lesson to make sure the students understood what a preposition was. I used a variety of prompts, such as a word, a question, a phrase, a haiku, a quote, a picture, etc. 6 Reasons to Try a Single-Point Rubric | Edutopia. As educators, we know the power of a good rubric. Well-crafted rubrics facilitate clear and meaningful communication with our students and help keep us accountable and consistent in our grading. They’re important and meaningful classroom tools. Usually when we talk about rubrics, we’re referring to either a holistic or an analytic rubric, even if we aren’t entirely familiar with those terms. A holistic rubric breaks an assignment down into general levels at which a student can perform, assigning an overall grade for each level.
For example, a holistic rubric might describe an A essay using the following criteria: “The essay has a clear, creative thesis statement and a consistent overall argument. Both styles have their advantages and have served many classrooms well. The single-point rubric offers a different approach to systematic grading in the classroom. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Teaching & Assessing Soft Skills. The career landscape is changing dramatically. The Bureau of Labor Statistics states that the average worker currently holds ten different jobs before the age of forty. This requires a high degree of flexibility and adaptability. Students who leave high school with strong soft skills will work more harmoniously with others and be more successful tackling unfamiliar tasks. However, teachers must explicitly teach these soft skills in school. Teachers cannot assume that students know what it looks like to communicate effectively. This year I am focusing on both teaching and assessing these critical soft skills. Now my teacher team uses these rubrics to give each student feedback on where he/she is in relation to mastering these crucial skills. Below are a few of the rubrics I designed.
If you have strategies or resources you use to support students in developing their soft skills, please post a comment and share them! Getting Started - Assessment-Information Literacy - LibGuides at Indiana University East. Assessment - History Skills. Diagnostic Teaching: Pinpointing Why Your Students Struggle. Why Did That Student Fail? A Diagnostic Approach To Teaching by Terry Heick When students struggle in school, it can be for a variety of reasons.
From their grasp of content and literacy skills, to their engagement level, to behavior and organizational issues, to teacher actions, to the proverbial “stuff going on at home,” the possibilities are maddeningly endless. The following 8-step process is a valuable tool for me as a teacher, so I thought I’d share a version of it here in hopes that it might help you. It was useful not only for me to see what strategic responses I had available to me as a teacher, but it was also useful for students to come to know what to expect. It also was valuable in teacher conferences, and in discussions with district folks during walk-throughs when they wanted to know how I “responded to non-mastery” (beyond reteach the same busted content in the same broken form with the same ineffective strategies that failed the first time.) The Goal Of Diagnostic Teaching. Teaching Tools. Public Speaking Posted in Rubrics A widely applicable rubric for public speaking or presentations at any level and any topic.
Continue Reading Persuasive Paper Posted in Rubrics The rubric was developed for sophomores writing a persuasive essay which use evidence and ethos, logos, and pathos. Download Turnitin Rubric (.rbc) Right-click and "Save Link As…" Continue Reading Modern History Inquiry Essay Posted in Rubrics This rubric is adapted from an evaluation form used to grade modern history inquiry papers in 11th grade.
Download Turnitin Rubric (.rbc) Right-click and "Save Link As…" Continue Reading Leadership Reflection Posted in Rubrics This rubric is designed to be used with a student reflection paper after one quarter of leadership and student government activities. Download Turnitin Rubric (.rbc) Right-click and "Save Link As…" Continue Reading. Reliable rubrics | developing rubrics that really work. Save Time Responding to Essays: Letter to the Class - Todd's Brain. Like anything in teaching, improving student writing is complicated, technical, subjective, and --at times--backbreaking.
Over the years, I've picked up some writing instruction tenets that I've learned, and that are also supported by research: Although those methods are important, instructors tend to focus their attention on a persistent pedagogical problem, how to have a life when there are so many essays to grade. Most students and parents don't realize that it takes five eight-hour days to respond to 120 essays (at 20 minutes per essay), usually composed of weeknights, weekends, and sabotaged vacations. All that time and energy eats into planning, working with students before and after school, parent communication, administrative paperwork and emails, family time, and recuperation. This is not a new problem, so the business sector has marketed a number of solutions: Indeed, efficiently responding to essays is the subject of many articles.
Components of the Evaluation Letter After. Assessment and Rubrics. Learn more about our Online Courses, Online Certificate Programs, and Graduate Degree A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, group work/cooperative learning, concept map, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects. Quick Links to Rubrics Social Media Project Rubrics Wiki RubricCriteria for assessing individual and group Wiki contributions.
Blog RubricAssess individual blog entries, including comments on peers' blogs. Twitter RubricAssess learning during social networking instructional assignments. Discussion, Teamwork, and Group Work Rubrics Online Discussion Board RubricAssessing 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 PowerPoint and Podcast Rubrics A+ PowerPoint Rubric Joan Vandervelde's rubric provides 10 performance categories. Examples of Tasks & Rubrics. Reading-Active-and-Engaging - Book Trailers - Assessment Rubric. Assessment and Rubrics.
Teachers who integrate technology into student activities and projects often ask us this question - “How do I grade it?” Fundamentally, assessing multimedia activities and projects is no different than evaluating traditional assignments, such as written essays. The primary distinctions between them are the unique features and divergent possibilities associated with their respective medium. For instance, a blog has a unique set of possibilities (such as hypertext, embedded video, interactive imagery, etc) vastly different than those of a notebook (paper and pen notes and drawings within a contained document).
The first thing to realize is that you cannot separate the user from the device. iPads, Chromebooks, and tech tools themselves don’t demonstrate great learning; it’s about what students do with the technology that matters. The technology itself is simply neutral. Consider: would a teacher grade the pen a student used to write an essay? Of course not! Read With Me. Plickers - Clickers, Simplified. Classroom Accounts - Portfoliogen. Rubrics for Teachers - Assessment. A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, group work/cooperative learning, concept map, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects. Quick Links to Rubrics Social Media Project Rubrics Wiki RubricCriteria for assessing individual and group Wiki contributions.
Blog RubricAssess individual blog entries, including comments on peers' blogs. Twitter RubricAssess learning during social networking instructional assignments. Discussion, Teamwork, and Group Work Rubrics Online Discussion Board RubricAssessing 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 RubricKaren Franker's rubric includes six defined criteria for assessing team and individual responsibility PowerPoint and Podcast Rubrics ePortfolio and Web Page Rubrics.
Free Certificates - CertificateStreet.com. Assessing Student Progress Using Blog-Based Porfolios. ePortfolios and Professional Digital Presence Teachers & Students. Mosaic Listserve Tools. Authentic Assessment Toolbox Home Page. Resources and Tools for PBL Start to Finish. How It Works. Apps to Use as Student ePortfolios.