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Rubrics: Good & Bad

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Welcome Back!! Last week in EDU 222 we discussed what makes a rubric good and have structure without being overbearing or so long/intense that it covers everything. To start off I want to look at what makes for a bad rubric. To me a bad rubric would be one that tries to cover every possible outcome of what you might get for student work, in lots of detail. Don't get me wrong I think it's important to cover for student outcomes, however if you make the categories broader it gives you more wiggle room. What might be considered level three work could be considered a level two for another student because you're expectations and possible accommodations are going to be different based on their knowledge level. The below rubric has lots of in depth detail about aspects of the assignment. However, if the point of the rubric is for a student to know what they are going to be graded on they potentially won't read all of your expectations because it looks like an overwhelming am...
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Teaching To Everyone

     Last Tuesday in my EDU 222 class we learned about lesson planning and being sure to recognize that your students all learn in different ways- So you can't go into creating a lesson plan and having a teaching style that caters to how you might learn best or how you feel your students learn best.      This was simulated with a card game. Our first card we did an in depth activity with where we created a tool to specifically help that student get through their day. Then when we really learned a lot about that student Dan gave us three more cards, where we couldn't learn as much in depth about these students- we really had to guess at their learning styles and what they would need as far as support. These were our four students for which we had to create a lesson/activity that all of the students would be able to do.      This lead to the realization that the students you will get in your classroom will be a diverse selection. It also le...
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SoundTrack EDU 222

Another assignment for EDU 222 this week was picking three songs that represent or connect to the beliefs each of has about technology's place in the classroom. So for my first song I chose, Lee Brice's Love Like crazy. A little background on the song if you've never heard it before is an older gentleman telling a younger person about the success of his marriage and life. This is the my second song because the lyrics where it says, "They called him crazy when he quit his job, said them home computers boy they'll never take off, well he sold his one man shop to Microsoft". It just goes to show how quickly technology took off, and it resonates with how technology is still one of the biggest advancing industries that we still have today. So I think being able to experience with new technology and programming in the classroom is going to be a key to success. If you can keep up with current technology it will also keep students engaged because you might be able t...
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