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"ClassDojo allows you to create your own standards to record in your class rosters. For high school students you could set standards for participation in classroom discussion be creating a standard like like "use of evidence in argument" or "thoughtful consideration and reply to opposing viewpoints." If your students are working in groups you could create standards like "efficient delegation of tasks" or "makes effort to include all group members."" Seems like a good way to create rubrics for creative topics. T/H R. Byrne

"A project based learning method is a comprehensive approach to instruction. Your students participate in projects and practice an interdisciplinary array of skills from math, language arts, fine arts, geography, science, and technology. .... "To help you start using PBL, we've created age-appropriate, customizable project checklists for written reports, multimedia projects, oral presentations, and science projects. The use of these checklists keeps students on track and allows them to take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation. " This site contains numerous rubric starter templates for each of the grades and for a wide-variety of topics. A way to get started.

R. Stannard reviews the CMS Edmodo platform, which let's you set up a virtual learning environment for students quickly and easily, and it's free. Edmodo is a wonderful for creating a class community, as well as setting assignments, creating quizzes, polls, and rubrics.

A nice collection of site with Project-based ideas -- "awesome, engaging, rigorous, and relevant projects." Hundreds of lesson plans and over 30 websites with examples, rubrics, templates, etc., for language arts, science, math, and social studies. Great resource blog.

"Use this downloadable PowerPoint show, complete with script in the Notes area, to walk students through the process of creating an infographic. The show includes tips on using the tools available in PowerPoint to "build" infographics right on a PowerPoint slide and save it as an image file. Even if you do not use PowerPoint, the tips will apply in any visual tool from Google Docs/Drive Drawing to a full image editing program such as Photoshop. Please note and respect the copyright notice on this show." A nice sample lesson and ideas on constructive criticism and a customizable rubric in Word doc.

A 6-step process for planning a prject with middle-school children (ages 10-13).

A good basis for grading a creative project that might include research, writing, oral presentation, and reflective blogging.

"4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use."

"It occurred to me that, at least for somewhat advanced learners (middle school and beyond?), I'd like to start having the learners propose evaluation criteria for rubrics. Why? Because, in the course of investigating what should be important, they're beginning to learn about what is important. "

This blog describes how the teacher uses wikis to help students manage their own learning trajectory, keeping parents informed, and also keeping the teacher on target: "I have room for student and parent resources, homework, What we did Today (for absent students or parents), grade-level skills, favorite links. You can even add student pages, created by students. This is very popular in the older grades. When students are absent, I send them to this wiki to see what we did and what they need help with. When we're getting ready to submit a project, they can check out the grading rubric here, be sure they have all required pieces. This is a great spot to include extensions for those precocious students who finish everything early. I'm going to add a 'sponge' page, for just that reason: a place students can go to try theme-oriented websites that can be completed in 5-10 minutes."

An assessment rubric for teachers to analyze the Language of the WebQuests students have created. Very detailed with several levels of evaluation.

BAsed on Bloom's revised taxonomy. This page has several variations on ways to look at the taxonomy and action verbs for objectives, including a mouse-over set of colored blocks with example of objectives for various combinations of cognitive processes and knowledge dimensions. The rainbow table of cognitive processes is also very helpful to visual the dimensions, and each part is well explained. Includes resources and other pages with the taxonomy explained. From CELT.

"What I like the most about this chart is the fact that it emphasizes the social and affective component in learning, something which is often overlooked in today's digitally-focused learning paradigms. These mechanical skill-based and market-oriented paradigms reduce students to 'cheerful robots' and view pedagogy as 'merely a skill, technique, or disinterested method' to teach pre specified subject matter' (Giroux, 2011). Instead, education should be viewed as an important locomotive not only for gainful employment but also for 'creating the formative culture of beliefs, practices, and social relations that enable individuals to wield power, learn how to govern, and nurture a democratic society that takes equality, justice, shared values, and freedom seriously.(Kindle Location, 67 from "On Critical Pedagogy")." The checklist is also quite short.

An excellent video of the teacher and students using the lesson plan, this lesson from the Teaching Channel walks you through preparation for a writing assignment. It was developed through an EQuIP Peer Review Panel to ensure alignment with the Common Core standards, and was created by teachers and administrators working with the Massachusetts Dept of Elementary and Secondary Ed Model Curriculum Project. It uses a "Smart Chart" to deepen student understanding of rhetorical devices and has students collaborate in a ranking activity. Has links to a place where you can submit your own lessons for a free EQuIP panel review, and links to other related lesson plans.