Co-creating+rubrics+with+students

=Co-creating rubrics with students=

This group will look at exemplary pieces of writing and use student discussion to help co-create rubrics for different writing genres. The teachers will create rubrics with their students and share these rubrics with group at March 23 meeting. They will compare the rubrics and discuss results. They will discuss how to make rubrics more kid-friendly and explore methods for improving students' honest self-evaluation. The group members are: Erin, Jolene, Shannon, Theresa, Wendy, Heather/Cari

Wendy: We discussed the use of rubrics in our classrooms and how it was sometimes a challenge to get students to correctly use the rubrics and honestly assess their work. We feel it would be easier to set the tone at the beginning of the year with using rubrics as it is the time when true molding takes place within setting up the writer's workshop. We also uploaded some of the student checklist that the students co-created that they have used in the past on non-fiction writing.

Jacqueline: We were talking about rubrics in our section of collaborative scoring. First, make sure that the rubrics match the standards that are expected to be taught. Something close isn't good enough! We tried it using another county's rubric and we weren't sure that they standards are the same. Second, we as teachers must get together and define things discussed in the rubric to set common expectations. In our session, we needed to define what is a fact and what is developmentally appropriate for each grade level.

Here is a lesson plan to help you introduce rubric writing with your students.



Here is a slip that can be filled out to help students focus on an area in a particular writing piece. Here are some of our checklist: