Sunday, May 23, 2010
Marzano's Chapter 4
After a long year of reading essays for my A.P. History class, I get so tired! This chapter gave me affirmation of the importance of feedback to my students. I've had so many teachers tell me that they just put a number on the papers from the rubric. I have a very difficult time doing that, because the students need to learn from their writings! A comment on how to strengthen the weak thesis, goes so much further then just giving them a score! Thanks to Marzano's chapter and a summer to recoup, next year I'll continue to grade their papers with all sorts of constructive criticism!
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Amen! I think it is so critical for students to get that feedback, as time consumming as it is for the teacher, but so worthwhile.
ReplyDeleteJeri- I do so agree! I was looking through some really old papers from MY early years of education. It struck me- probably because of the Marzano chapter- that the papers I kept from elementary school were always things I had written and always things with real teacher written feedback. I guess it would be better to assign less 'stuff' and respond properly. I teach music in an elementary school. One thing I have been excited about this year was the use of formal and informal student generated rubrics. The idea came from a workshop I attended. Assessment can be as simple as asking the question- What would quality work look like? A discussion follows. A rubric can then be formally written or not, but everyone is on the same page as far as what is expected. Works well in a music classroom.
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