Highly Effective Classroom Strategies and Practices I was really surprised when teacher evaluation rubrics rolled out, and there was a backlash against them. I was a middle school principal when the Danielson Framework for Teaching was adopted for APPR. The rubric itself came in very shape and size: one page, two page, 27 page, 54 page, and full-size books. I thought teachers would be thankful for such clarity, but instead, they remarked on how unclear it was because there were so many … [Read more...]
Common Strategies for Highly Effective Assessment Practices
Common Language Rubrics are a wonderful tool, to a point, and very quickly they become burdensome. They serve their purpose of providing both the teacher and the student, or the observer and the observed, a common language, but attempting to use the whole rubric every day becomes too much to handle. As essential as it is for students to unpack a task or teachers to analyze a standard we must also breakdown a rubric into classroom application. No matter what you think of a teacher … [Read more...]