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rubrics
By Pat

Rubrics can be so helpful! In a class I am taking every written assignment we are given includes a list of "Criteria for Success" so we know exactly what the instructor is looking for. I am letting my students know beforehand
just what I expect of them. It must be very clear, like stating the # of sentences required. No miracles have occured but there are no excuses for them to goof up when the list of requirements is right there.
Which leads to another of the everpresent questions....when kids race through assignments and hand in poor work...what are they hurrying toward??? What do they think they get

to do after they are done??? I actually had a girl ask me "what can I do now?" I told her she could make her paper better,she could read or work in her 'work folder' or she could sit with her hands folded till everyone else was done. She chose the latter!