1st Graders Self-Assess: "I Want To Be Excellent."

by | Nov 28, 2011 | Less Teacher, More Student, The How of 21st Century Teaching, Voices

I’ve nodded sagely as people discussed whether students should help create their own assessment rubric. Of course they should. Why doesn’t everyone do this, I wondered? It just never occurred to me to do it in MY classroom. It wasn’t that I didn’t think my students could do it. I somehow didn’t get my thinking from the “should” to the “I’m doing it.” Until this week.