Kristen asks a question and gives us a nice report from the field in the process! –
Hello people that I deeply admire!
My admin is thankfully loving the progress I have made this year. I owe most of you a HUGE amount of credit for this wonderful change in my teaching.
I was wondering if you have a Speaking or a Writing rubric that I could use that effectively demonstrates growth without forcing output.
I usually just ask yes or no questions on my speaking assessments (maybe I should call them comprehension assessments). I don’t like doing them, but I do like spending one on one time with my students so I take the pressure off and ask them to answer questions based on things we have covered already in class.
My admin wants me to have clear rubrics to match what I am measuring, of course.
I am so glad he is starting to see things my way!!!
Thanks for your help and support as always!! GO TEAM!
Kristen Noelle Donoghue Wolf
Below is what I found. If others have some rubrics to share, please send them to me at benslavic@yahoo.com or maybe you can cut and paste them into comment fields.
https://benslavic.com/blog/dps-writing-and-speaking-rubrics/
Diane Neubauer on the topic:
https://benslavic.com/blog/speaking-rubric/
Ben Lev formatted Diane’s work:
https://benslavic.com/blog/speaking-rubric-2/
dps-writing_rubric_2013-14speaking-self-assess
Two cautions on the speaking rubric: (1) as many here know, DPS gave up on assessing speaking. I personally thought it absurd, like trying to tell the difference between a two months’ old vs. a seven months’ old speech, (2) I really like this primer from Nathaniel on speech output and so share it here in case you need to educate your principal about how speech output occurs after years, not 25 45′ class periods:
speech-output-primer-2-nathaniel
And here is Angie on the topic:
And Robert: