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Jo Richards

Trouble with Rubrics - 0 views

  • “we need to look to the piece of writing itself to suggest its own evaluative criteria” – a truly radical and provocative suggestion.
    • Jo Richards
       
      Wow, nice concept. Getting further into subjectivity though. Where do we get an understanding of how to determine a pieces distinct 'evaluative criteria'
  • Thus, the dilemma:  Either our instruction and our assessment remain “out of synch” or the instruction gets worse in order that students’ writing can be easily judged with the help of rubrics.
  • In fact, when the how’s of assessment preoccupy us, they tend to chase the why’s back into the shadows.
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  • We have to reassess the whole enterprise of assessment, the goal being to make sure it’s consistent with the reason we decided to go into teaching in the first place.
Phil Taylor

How to transition reluctant teachers to confident facilitators « - 0 views

  • we want teachers to feel ‘wow, I want my class to be like that all the time’ and ‘I can do that!’. There are a number of ways to achieve this, but lets look at one, peer observation (which is not new at all)
Berylaube 00

60second Recap® Video Notes. Everything you need to wow your English teacher! - 9 views

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    60 Second Recap is an awesome new site that has one goal, they want to make the great works of literature accessible, relevant, and irresistible to today's teens. Using short (60 second) video albums, they seek to help teens engage with the best books out there ... not just to help them get better grades, but "to help them build better lives". Looks like a welcome and nice alternative for Cliff Notes and Spark Notes. Check this one out - it only takes a minute.
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