Great article. I enjoy your teaching articles as most are a mirror of what I also experience.
I have my students either first self-evaluate or we evaluate their projects together. I appreciate their honesty, and usually I look like the nice guy bumping up the grade they thought they deserved.
I will introduce rubrics as you described and posted though. Currently I use a evaluation sheet with pretty much the same criteria. But a rubric would lay out more criteria at once and probably be easier to mark.
I’ve been reading your stuff for a few months now and really enjoy it. I teach small classes occasional here in Brooklyn, NY. The classes are hand tool focused and I am always struggling how to get a thorough yet to the point class curriculum and lesson plan. Most are one day or two day classes so that makes it more complicated. Students are usually all complete beginners so a lot of it tends to skew into. I’ve been dialing it in and hope I can continue to evolve the overall structure. Thanks for sharing your tips and advice on teaching. It’s all very helpful.
It's definitely not easy, especially with complete beginners. Sometimes we can overload them with information but on the other side, sometimes we assume they have more knowledge than they really have. Keep it up and if there's anything I can do for you, let me know.
Great article. I enjoy your teaching articles as most are a mirror of what I also experience.
I have my students either first self-evaluate or we evaluate their projects together. I appreciate their honesty, and usually I look like the nice guy bumping up the grade they thought they deserved.
I will introduce rubrics as you described and posted though. Currently I use a evaluation sheet with pretty much the same criteria. But a rubric would lay out more criteria at once and probably be easier to mark.
Are you in Ontario? I am.
I really like that self-evaluation too, it's surprising how hard they are on themselves.
I'm in Virginia.
I’ve been reading your stuff for a few months now and really enjoy it. I teach small classes occasional here in Brooklyn, NY. The classes are hand tool focused and I am always struggling how to get a thorough yet to the point class curriculum and lesson plan. Most are one day or two day classes so that makes it more complicated. Students are usually all complete beginners so a lot of it tends to skew into. I’ve been dialing it in and hope I can continue to evolve the overall structure. Thanks for sharing your tips and advice on teaching. It’s all very helpful.
It's definitely not easy, especially with complete beginners. Sometimes we can overload them with information but on the other side, sometimes we assume they have more knowledge than they really have. Keep it up and if there's anything I can do for you, let me know.
*tends to skew intro
An edit button would be nice