Just to reiterate, I love rubrics. Thank you for the link to this one! I honestly feel like having some guidelines like these is helpful in creating a blog that can explain the same information in a more cohesive or more approachable way. Telling students to "go ahead and start blogging" may overwhelm most of them (i.e. lack of activity on our motherblog); saying "go check out some other blogs and see what you think works" can be helpful but may be equally as overwhelming; having a rubric like this as a starting place to understand what we're trying to achieve breaks it down in a way that allows me to engage.
What I'm now pondering is that even though rubrics help for me by breaking a problem down into approachable pieces, rubrics may not be a helpful solution for all of my students, so how do I reach out and engage the students who interact with the material in ways I'm unfamiliar with? Will I be forced to try and learn by trial and error, or is there a rubric somewhere for engagement (j/k).
Just to reiterate, I love rubrics. Thank you for the link to this one! I honestly feel like having some guidelines like these is helpful in creating a blog that can explain the same information in a more cohesive or more approachable way. Telling students to "go ahead and start blogging" may overwhelm most of them (i.e. lack of activity on our motherblog); saying "go check out some other blogs and see what you think works" can be helpful but may be equally as overwhelming; having a rubric like this as a starting place to understand what we're trying to achieve breaks it down in a way that allows me to engage.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm now pondering is that even though rubrics help for me by breaking a problem down into approachable pieces, rubrics may not be a helpful solution for all of my students, so how do I reach out and engage the students who interact with the material in ways I'm unfamiliar with? Will I be forced to try and learn by trial and error, or is there a rubric somewhere for engagement (j/k).