Ruth sent this for Kristen but I thought I would post it here for anyone interested.
relaxedunrehearsedlow-pressureinterviewrubric
Ruth explains:
Hi Ben,
I don’t know if the attached document would be useful to Kristen who is looking for speech and writing rubrics. It’s just for listening comrehension and speaking. I made it up a while ago but have yet to use it, so it’s never been critiqued and tweeked. It’s not based on anything except my own thoughts about what I would want to show the kids about where they are at.
I don’t grade speaking or writing, and I don’t have to do formal assessments at this point, but it may be coming down the pike. Also, I find many kids want things like this for their own reasons and to feel more like school. At this point I get more pressure from some kids than I do from administration. I’d like to find time to have a one-on-one conversation with each student, to show them how much they can do and to give this a try.
Best,
Ruth
Ruth added in a comment:
[This rubric] is to use with one-on-one conversations with students, not to grade them or pressure them, but to show them and me where they are at. They seem to want that. I haven’t used it yet. I don’t grade output, and I have shied away from this kind of assessment even for my own information. It’s definitely in the air, though, so I want to find a friendly way to do it. I think how we handle the conversations, how we put the students at their ease, gauge what we say to allow them to be successful at whatever level they are at would make all the difference. I would hope to let them see what they can do in a different way than the day to day class. I hope, too, that I would get a clearer picture of what kind of acquisition is happening in class than I get from the broad, somewhat haphazard, rather laid back (except in my class of nerve-wracking misbehaviorists) classroom view that I get each day as we do whatever we do.