Week 2 Reflection

By: Ella Richards

New Learning

This past week, I was able to familiarize myself with what checklists, rating scales, and rubrics are. A checklist is an organized list of skills, abilities, and behaviors that children may show. This is a handy tool to use and it is very easy to grade. A rating scale is an organized list of skills, abilities, behaviors, and levels or performance. Rating scales are useful for evaluating the frequency of quality of things. A rubric is an organized list of skills, abilities, behaviors and levels of performance. The difference between a rubric and rating scale, is that a rubric defining the level of the skills or behaviors were present.

Checklist

Rating Scale

Rubric

Future Classroom

When I am in my future classroom, I hope to be able to utilize all of the different types of observation techniques. From what I can recall, growing up most of my teachers used rubrics for feedback and observations. So, I think the one I would be using most often would have to be the rubric. When providing my students with rubrics, I will be sure to make them very detailed, to leave no room for confusion. I know that sometimes, rubrics are not detailed enough, which makes children confused. I will try my hardest to make sure that everything makes sense, but I do know that will be difficult. 

Difficulties of an Analytic Rubric

In class on Wednesday & Friday we were broken up into small groups and tasked to make an analytic rubric. I think the hardest part of making these was coming up with appropriate criteria to "grade the children" on. I think to make this easier on myself in the future, I would just continue to keep writing and making these rubrics. The more that I make them, the easier it will be to develop criteria that is easy to understand and helpful, for not only myself but also my students!