Integration of Technology… There’s A New Digital Grading Tool Out There, And It Will Make Your Life Way Easier 6 Nov 20176 Nov 2017 Let's face it, grading can be a major buzz-kill. No matter how hard you try to prepare, or manage your time, or stay on top of the mounds of papers…
8th Grade Reading… My Grading Process 17 Nov 201518 Nov 2015 Standards-Based Grading can be crazy, but it's something been completely thrown into and have to accept :) It's not so bad on the teacher end once you get started with…
Mason City High School… Weekly Reflection #6 – Finding a Plan for Late Work 9 Oct 201520 Oct 2015 A lot happened this week: first round of conferences, introducing To Kill a Mockingbird, finishing up The Scarlet Letter, final activities for Tuesdays with Morrie, gathering and grading assignments--I was busy! One thing I've taken away…
High School… Creating My Own Rubric 19 Feb 20153 Dec 2015 During my clinical hours at Garner-Hayfield-Ventura High School in the fall of 2013, I created a rubric for a research paper in a 12th grade English classroom. I was very…
Clinical Journal The Widely-Held Expectations in Intellectual, Writing, and Reading Development 19 Feb 201516 Sep 2015 As a future English/Reading teacher, I've had plenty of experience [in the classroom and in clinical placements] evaluating student work/student abilities, whether that be their basic intellectual skills, their writing…
