Digital Storytelling - Week Five

I find this lesson very interesting, especially in regards to rubrics. In one sense, I feel like we as teachers have been rubriced (is that a word?) to death, but I really like rubrics and I use them a lot in my teaching. My district is in the process of switching to all standards-based grading, which actually led us to develop MORE rubrics, since we had to do away with our normal percents and letter grades. However, I have always used them to assess the students myself, making sure that I show the rubric ahead of time so my students know what I expect of them from the very beginning. I don't usually use rubrics for students' self-assessment or peer assessment, and I kind of feel stupid for not using it that way. After reading the articles for this week, I realize that having students use the rubrics for their own assessment would really save me time on grading, as well as holding the students accountable for their own learning and really growing through receiving feedback from their peers.