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Using Digital Conversations to Create Individualized Student Rubrics

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Colorado Convention Center, 201

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Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator
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@Amy__Ski
Amy Szczepanski is a science teacher from Brooklyn, New York. She has taught in public, private, charter, and start-up schools, in a variety of cities across the country. Currently, Amy is on residence in Washington, DC as part of the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship. The fellowship takes accomplished STEM educators and places them in government agencies for a year where they can apply their knowledge to national education programs and national policy efforts.

Session description

This session provides educators a template to have a digital conversation with students. In this conversation, educators will engage in a back and forth "discussion" that leads to individualized project and grading expectations that are determined both by the student and by the teacher.

Purpose & objective

Participant Outcomes: Guide a Google Doc conversation that allows students to have greater autonomy when deciding how to present their learning, and what they will be evaluated on.

Participants will be able to:
-engage students in conversation via google docs
-provide students with a tool and strategies to investigate how they would like to demonstrate their learning and understanding
-work with individual students to create a personalized rubric
-analyze student progress and provide feedback
-provide students with the guidance they need to recognize areas of strength as well as areas that need attention
-work with students to create fair and reasonable grading parameters.

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Outline

Content: A few audience members (acting as students) will participate in a digital discussion with the presenter. By the end of the session, the audience members and presenter will have created a mutually agreed upon rubric that will be used to assess the audience member on a project of their choice.

Time: 5 minute intro, 15 minutes audience participation, 10 minutes audience work time to create a conversation scaffolding that works for them and their their students.

Process: The session will start with some peer to peer interaction discussing their experience of using student choice. Audience participation will be a device based activity. Work time would be device based as well and include peer-to-peer interaction.

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Supporting research

https://www.edutopia.org/article/importance-student-choice-across-all-grade-levels/

https://www.msudenver.edu/early-bird/consider-including-students-in-creating-rubrics/

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/journalrw/vol8/iss2/6/

https://leadinggreatlearning.com/students-learn-choose-choose-learn/

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Session specifications

Topic:
Personalized learning
Grade level:
6-12
Skill level:
Intermediate
Audience:
Curriculum/district specialists, Teachers
Attendee devices:
Devices useful
Attendee device specification:
Smartphone: Windows, Android, iOS
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Participant accounts, software and other materials:
Attendees should have access to a google account, specifically google drive, and google docs. Teachers should have access to a device that allows them to access, edit, and share google docs.
Subject area:
Science, STEM/STEAM
ISTE Standards:
For Students:
Empowered Learner
  • Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
  • Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.
  • Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.