First, you must evaluate the effectiveness of your lesson in terms of how it matches the content areas you attempted to cover, the design of the lesson, how well you implemented it, and what your students learned.  We must not overlook the fact that as teachers, we need to access our own work as well as the results of what we expect our students to learn or be able to do.  Being able to critically analyze our own performance enhances our ability to grow.

What is a rubric?

A rubric is a set of categories which define and describe the important components of the work being completed, critiqued, or assessed. Each category contains a gradation of levels of completion or competence with a score assigned to each level and a clear description of what criteria need to be met to attain the score at each level.

As a teacher, you must evaluate what worked about your lesson and what didn't work.   Using the form below, create a rubric for the technology-based lesson plans in your area using the criteria established for this training.

Creating rubrics promotes thinking and learning while establishing qualitative results for project-oriented activities.  Read and study the link to "Using Scoring Rubrics " to see why they are effective.

It is often a good idea to allow students to create the rubrics as a process of being engaged in their own learning and responsible for the outcome.  You may do this by identifying the components of what needs to be evaluated on the left and the columns on the right as indicated above.   

Examples of lesson rubrics are noted below.  Research these links to determine how you would like to set up the rubrics format for the lesson you will implement with your students.  Create a table in Word such as that above.  After identifying the project and curriculum standards, have your students get in groups to create the rubrics.  From that, collaborate and come to a consensus.

Creating Your Own Map Rubric
Travel Brochure Rubric
Collaboration Rubric
Physics Rubric
Science Rubric
A Rubric to Evaluate a Web Quest

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