Sunday, February 1, 2015

Rubrics & Competencies

The Assignment:
For this section, set up a competency structure for one unit of your sample course. Associate the assignments in that unit with the competency. Submit both a screenshot of the structure and a detailed explanation of why you created the structure that way. Include a discussion of the various pathways a student may go through to attain the competencies in the unit and document all in your blog.

Currently, my students are reading The Slave Narrative of Frederick Douglass, and as they read, they have to complete multiple assignments associated with the reading in their Interactive Notebooks.  To integrate United States' History with my American Literature Course, I often assign students a Document Based Question (DBQ).  This DBQ serves as a performance task.  While completing the daily assignment like completing the graphic organizer, I will use a class participation rubric.  But, for the writing, I may use a different rubric.  Students can earn multiple grades while completing the DBQ because the writing is a process!  I can also break the DBQ process into smaller chunks or stages.  For example, students could easily create some type of DBQ project like a PowerPoint or Prezi, or students can create informational graphics with all the documents and then complete another task.  

The DBQ Assignment on The Civil War


Classwork Rubric

  • Answering questions on the DBQ
  • Annotating Documents
  • Completing graphic organizer(s)



Sample Rubrics for Essay

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