Re-tests may be written on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. No retests to be given after June 1st.
Assignments - Hand in on the due date. All unsubmitted assignments will be recorded as zeros, to indicate that zero evidence of achievement has been provided.
Assessment Criteria - The criteria for many assessments will be co-constructed. Students will be grouped. We will look at an example text or project, at the front of the class. There will be a piece of chart paper at each group's table, with a picture of the example project.
1) Five minutes for students to create their own lists (quietly) of the qualities which make this project good. What are the things that Mr. Standring is looking for in this project?
2) Three more minutes will be given for group sharing, to create a list of the look-for qualities. What made it good?
3) Three more minutes are allocated for one student to stay with the paper while others go to other tables (split up) to listen and view what was done in the other groups.
4) Come back to your tables and add what you have learned to your lists.
5) At this point, I will talk AT the class to identify weak points or missing criteria that must be added to their rubrics.
6) Students must now make a personal copy of their co-constructed rubrics for their notebooks.
Peer Feedback - Students will regularly provide feedback to one another, by reading and review written / visual, or spoken work.
The guidelines for peer feedback are as follows:
a) We will use the agreed upon criteria (rubric).
b) There will be a three point scale, with criteria, and students will give a check mark in the appropriate box for all criteria.
c) MOST IMPORTANT: Students will provide justification for the mark they have given in each box, through examples, explanations, quotes, etc. Feedback must be useful in improving the work. Explain why your peer has met the criteria in your own words.
Resubmitting: Students may resubmit an assignment, within a reasonable timeline. In most cases, that timeline is before the summative (final test or project), for that unit. If it is the final project, then it must be resubmitted before the next unit's project.
To resubmit, students must:
1) Prove that their assignment is materially different from the previous attempt. How?
Assignments - Hand in on the due date. All unsubmitted assignments will be recorded as zeros, to indicate that zero evidence of achievement has been provided.
Assessment Criteria - The criteria for many assessments will be co-constructed. Students will be grouped. We will look at an example text or project, at the front of the class. There will be a piece of chart paper at each group's table, with a picture of the example project.
1) Five minutes for students to create their own lists (quietly) of the qualities which make this project good. What are the things that Mr. Standring is looking for in this project?
2) Three more minutes will be given for group sharing, to create a list of the look-for qualities. What made it good?
3) Three more minutes are allocated for one student to stay with the paper while others go to other tables (split up) to listen and view what was done in the other groups.
4) Come back to your tables and add what you have learned to your lists.
5) At this point, I will talk AT the class to identify weak points or missing criteria that must be added to their rubrics.
6) Students must now make a personal copy of their co-constructed rubrics for their notebooks.
Peer Feedback - Students will regularly provide feedback to one another, by reading and review written / visual, or spoken work.
The guidelines for peer feedback are as follows:
a) We will use the agreed upon criteria (rubric).
b) There will be a three point scale, with criteria, and students will give a check mark in the appropriate box for all criteria.
c) MOST IMPORTANT: Students will provide justification for the mark they have given in each box, through examples, explanations, quotes, etc. Feedback must be useful in improving the work. Explain why your peer has met the criteria in your own words.
Resubmitting: Students may resubmit an assignment, within a reasonable timeline. In most cases, that timeline is before the summative (final test or project), for that unit. If it is the final project, then it must be resubmitted before the next unit's project.
To resubmit, students must:
1) Prove that their assignment is materially different from the previous attempt. How?
- Use sticky notes / digital comments (in Word or Google Docs) to write about and explain changes and improvements.
- Highlighting new and / or changed text. Make it clear what has been done to the work that makes it new and different.
- Lack of paragraphs which creates one block of text, without any evidence of organization, or understanding of planning, to create flow.
- Sentence fragments. Each sentence must be read independently, to see if it can stand alone as an independent thought. If it doesn't make sense on its own, then it is not a sentence.
- Missing parenthetical citation, or Works Cited.