Friday, March 6, 2009

Sight Project--Assessment Day Three

After viewing all of the remaining photo stories in a straight run of three classes, the English teacher called it a day.

So, we reconvened the next morning to compare our notes/rubric scores for the kids. It started going a bit faster after awhile. No more looking back to see what a certain commented had translated to grade wise on another paper--we could just remember. The same comments seemed to pop up on a majority of papers. Words like "why" and "speak up" and "don't read your captions."

I think some of my suggestions will get implemented next year. She definitely plans to start the photo/image gathering at the beginning of the play. And, I think she's thinking about having it be about what students would show Helen Keller--especially since some students had commented that they did not really see a connection between this project and "the Miracle Worker."

It was fairly tedious task, but we got most of the projects finished. We stopped with about twenty left when we ran out of rubrics.

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