A year ago I wrote about rethinking the rubric. You can read that post HERE. After spending time with Michael McDowell I have had to rethink the rubric …again.
Not major changes but a few tweaks to the language will make this process even richer.
My original rubric (below) asked the student/teacher to name the activity, list items that they needed to rethink and to identify items they like that ‘bump it up’. After listening to Michael McDowell speak (and reading his book Developing Expert Learners) I knew I wanted to change these three things.
I removed ‘Activity’ as straight away I was buying in to cognitive drift – taking the focus to the activity and not the learning. I replaced rethink with opportunities (potential improvement and next steps). I replaced bump it up with strengths (areas of success). Engaging students in completing the rubric will hopefully help move them from ‘motion’ to ‘action.
