3. Peel Back the Curtain to Make Performance Expectations Clear:
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What does mastery look like and how do you know if your students mastered the objective? How will you show what mastery looks like to your students?
All of these questions can be easily answered with the right tools and resources. Goodwin and Hubble state that, "Teachers need to show, not just tell students what mastery looks like" (p. 32). We simply can't just tell students what you need to do in order to master something but show, explain, and go in depth the different levels of mastery. The concept of peeling back the curtain is to make it clear to the students as to how they will be graded. It's purpose is to eliminate the mystery of grades. Rubrics are an excellent way to take away the mystery of grades, it makes it clear for the students and lays out what they the need to do to achieve mastery.
Here are some essentials for creating a rubric:
1.Use student friendly language.
2.Distinguish the different levels of mastery.
3.Use the rubric with your students.
4.Keep it simple.
5.Use descriptive language
Please see below an example of a rubric I used for my kids with their Unit 4 pre-assessment, we used this rubric to create a goal in Unit 4.
All of these questions can be easily answered with the right tools and resources. Goodwin and Hubble state that, "Teachers need to show, not just tell students what mastery looks like" (p. 32). We simply can't just tell students what you need to do in order to master something but show, explain, and go in depth the different levels of mastery. The concept of peeling back the curtain is to make it clear to the students as to how they will be graded. It's purpose is to eliminate the mystery of grades. Rubrics are an excellent way to take away the mystery of grades, it makes it clear for the students and lays out what they the need to do to achieve mastery.
Here are some essentials for creating a rubric:
1.Use student friendly language.
2.Distinguish the different levels of mastery.
3.Use the rubric with your students.
4.Keep it simple.
5.Use descriptive language
Please see below an example of a rubric I used for my kids with their Unit 4 pre-assessment, we used this rubric to create a goal in Unit 4.
Here are some more great resources to use:
References:
Goodwin, R. & Hubbell, E. R. (2013). The 12 touchstones of good teaching: A checklist for staying focused every day.
Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
Edutopia. How do Rubrics Work? (July 2008). retrieved from:
http://www.edutopia.org/assessment-guide-rubrics
Rubric. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.rcampus.com/indexrubric.cfm.
Rubistar. (2008). Retrieved from http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php.
Goodwin, R. & Hubbell, E. R. (2013). The 12 touchstones of good teaching: A checklist for staying focused every day.
Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
Edutopia. How do Rubrics Work? (July 2008). retrieved from:
http://www.edutopia.org/assessment-guide-rubrics
Rubric. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.rcampus.com/indexrubric.cfm.
Rubistar. (2008). Retrieved from http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php.