Rubrics for PBL projects have the power to communicate, inspire, and motivate your students’ performance when they are working on PBL projects. Learn tips, techniques, and strategies to empower your rubrics to empower your students when they are creating PBL projects for your summative assessments.
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Engaging students in our instruction, their learning, as well as their assessments is a high priority for every teacher at every grade level with every student. And we find that our methodologies to engage students that work with one group of students, may be different from one class to the next.
Most times we think about the content of our instruction, student learning, and assessment, and if our students will deem it interesting enough to want to engage and do well.
However, I have found when teaching in my classroom as well as co-teaching and coaching in teachers’ classrooms that if we appeal to the human nature in each student, we have a higher probability to for most if not all students to WANT to engage in our classroom, course, and our content.
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Feedback…what does it mean to provide meaningful and purposeful feedback to students? Quickly, I can tell you what it’s not. Feedback should not be solely communication with the student to tell him or her how he or she did on an assignment after it is submitted. Yes, you heard me right. And, if you are doing this type of limited feedback, no worries, I, too, did the same for years.
And then I heard a presentation at a live ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Conference about feedback and providing the type of feedback to students that increase their FUTURE student engagement, learning, progress, achievement, and confidence. You saw that right…FUTURE!
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