Rubrics are a great way to quickly mark a student's performance. In the Teacher Tip Newsletter of December 19th, from Teachnology, there were lots of quick, free rubrics spotlighted. For most of the rubrics, you enter a title for the rubric, your school name, and your teacher name. For several of them, you can select a graphic to appear on the rubric. Once you make your selections and enter the required information, simply clicking the Generate button will give you a rubric ready to use. In my case, once the rubric showed on the screen, I clicked the Print button in my browser and saved it as a pdf file so I could print it to use over and over. I looked at samples of the following:
If you are truly tech-savvy and save the rubrics in Adobe pdf format, you might be able to run form field recognition on the rubrics and use them electronically, saving printing, ink and paper in the process. It worked quite well for me on several of the rubrics. The rubrics could then be sent by e-mail to the student or even to the parent/guardian.
I hope you will try one of the rubrics provided free by Teachnology.
