TEACHERS’ PAGE

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  TEACHERS’ RUBRIC  

            The issue of creating a climate of understanding within the classroom is a prime goal of this enrichment activity. The Teacher’s vehicle for assessment of the elements of handiness, dexterity and cleverness is guided by a heuristically drawn rubric. Judging the ability of the website to sway a Teacher’s decision to include a website in her/his daily lesson plan is in the hands of the teacher .The students have the potential to have their scores listed and the issue of standardized testing becomes less complicated and more simplified. 

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TOPIC RELATED CURRICULUMS

Ethics

  (A) Learning how educational technology web tools offer choice and responsibility on the Internet and in the Classroom.

U.S. History and Social Studies

(A) Learning how human universals are defined as those features of :

Culture (myths, legends, daily routines, notions of property, rules, concepts of luck, body adornment).

Society (family, social groups, kinship groups, notions of property, division of labor, ethno-centricism, exchange , cooperation, reciprocity) .

Language (phonetic expression, phonemic awareness, prosody, phonology) .

Behavior (gossip, gestures, facial expressions, aggression).

Mind (dichotomous thinking, fear of snakes, empathy, psychological defense mechanisms) have helped to determine how human universals cross over from conventional realms and serve as one of the prime causations for  lying, revenge , hostility and conflict, (Brown, D.2004).

(B) Learning how individual and group norms, customs, habits, values and strive for competition for natural resources all interact to influence how individuals, groups and nations accept or reject each other.

English Language Arts /Themes

  (A) Learning if educational technology web tools enhance lesson plannning in Language Arts .

Technology Arts

(A)  Evaluating the degree of interactivity for a Web site.

 (B)  Evaluating the ability of a Web site to promote interactivity.

(C)  Learning if educational technology web tools are acceptable to a Teacher’s epistemic and pedagogical beliefs.

Science and Research Thinking

  (A) Learning if web quiz activities in science, mathematics, language arts , history and social studies or technology strengthen subject knowledge, e.g., the science

of rocks and cave paintings within an eco-system quiz or the types of shapes in a mathematics quiz or the kinds of clouds in a science quiz augment student learning

and optimize performance on stadardized tests.     

                                                 

STANDARDIZED TEST ASSESSMENT REFERENCE

The Massachusetts Curriculum Assessment MCAS and Alternative MCAS Web site are presented as a reference to the Curriculum Frameworks and Benchmarks

intended for this Web-site, (http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/)

Integrated Learning Scenario Grade 5 Alignment to Instructional Technology Learning

 Alignment to Grade levels 5-8:  National Educational Technology Standards1,2,3, for students, teachers and administartors (NETS) and Massachusetts Instructional Technology Standards.

(A) Students can use the scroll browser and go back and forth and forward in basic operations and concepts.

 (B) Students will analyze an interactive web activity to strengthen subject knowledge and view illustrations and images related to the topic. Standard: 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 25.5, 1.25, 1.26, 1.28.

Integrated Learning Scenario Grade 5 Alignment to English Language Arts (ELA)

 Massachusetts Curriculum Assessments Standards: 11

 Theme:  Alignment for the ELA Theme of Mutual Respect, Friendship and Peace.

(A)Students will be able to apply subject knowledge related to the concept of mutual respect, friendship and peace.

(B)Students will be able to include the main idea and the meaning a folk tale selection (implied or stated).    

Integrated Learning   Scenario Grade 5   Alignment to United States History /Social Science

 History and Social Studies:

 (A)   Students will recognize the main characters, the plot, the setting and the elements of a Folk Tale.  

 Massachusetts Curriculum Assessments Standards:   5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10       

          

 (B) Students will recognize a connection to an underlying theme within the folk tale.

Massachusetts Curriculum Assessments Standards5.13, 5.15, 5.16, 5.17

 

  THE FOLLOWING BENCHMARK PROVIDES A HEURISTIC EXPLANATION OF EACH PERFORMANCE LEVEL OF THIS RUBRIC.

      4 Excellent   The student meets the standard of excellence for the grade, demonstrates exemplary performance or understanding, shows creativity.

This is a “Wow!

                  3 Proficient The student meets the acceptable standard for the grade by demonstrating solid performance or understanding.

This is a “Yes.”

 

                  2 Adequate The student just meets the acceptable standard for the grade. Performance and understanding are emerging or developing, some errors are

being made, grasp is not thorough.              

                  This is a “Yes, but…

 

                  1 Limited* The student is not yet meeting the acceptable standard for the grade and has serious errors, omissions or misconceptions.

 

                  This is a “No, but there is some basis for making improvement.”

 

                  The teacher needs to make decisions about appropriate interventions to help the student improve.

 

                  Insufficient/Blank*No score is awarded because there is insufficient evidence of student performance based on the requirements of the task .

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                 This is a “No judgment can be made.

The teacher must decide:

                  .If the student should redo the task,

                 .If more time should be provided to complete the task,

               · If a different task at the student’s ability level should be assigned ·

               . If further instruction leading to reassessment should be provided,

               · If the task is inappropriate for the student and should be scrapped,* When work is judged limited or insufficient, teachers need to make decisions about appropriate   interventions used  to help students improvement.

 

 AUTHOR’S NOTES and CITATIONS 

1.        Brown, D. (2004) Human universals, human nature & human culture, MIT Press Journal.

2.        http://www.peachpit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=flash&seqNum=354 citation retrieved online July 8th, 2008.

 

 

 

                                                                                    

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