Why oh why does it always have to come back to test? It was very hard for me to get into this chapter because it just was not interesting. One thing that I can take from this chapter is the idea of rubrics and pre-writing strategies.
One thing that really stuck out for me in my pre-internship experience while making lessons and giving lesson is having a rubric for everything. This gives students a foundation for what is expected of them and avoids students saying "well I wasn't sure what you wanted" or "I just didn't understand the assignment." Rubrics are a way to give more detail explanation of the assignment given. From my own personal experience, I notice when I have a rubric before the assignment is due, I check and recheck that I have fulfilled all the duties of that assignment. I notice that I do better on the assignment and I don't have as many questions, like a normally do, when a teacher fails to explain the assignment.
I love pre-writing strategies. I notice as an English major, one thing that I have the hardest time doing is starting a paper. It's so hard putting my thoughts right off the back, but when I have the time to just write all my thoughts down and not have to a clear idea what they are, but just know that this is what ideas I'm going to have in my paper, I am able to produce my paper better. pre-writing is needed and essential for students that have trouble writing and I believe, that is most students. We as teachers need to teach our student show to draft and just write, without thinking things need to be perfect, just write. Then gather you ideas to the way the student wants them to look.
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You have some good points supporting rubrics. Feel free to cut and paste some of them into our wikispace on the pro side of rubrics.
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