Hi everyone and thanks for listening!
I will tell you about the Scientix Rubric.
As mentioned before, in order to get a course certificate, you will need to create and submit
a lesson plan.
Whilst you will be working on filling in the lesson plan throughout the whole STEM Is Everywhere!
MOOC, you will only have to submit it during the final course activity, in Module 4.
After you have submitted your lesson plan, you have to wait 24 hours and then go back
to the EUN Academy site, where you can find 3 other lesson plans that your peers have
submitted and then you can review those, using this Rubric.
We recommend that you start drafting your lesson plan, already keeping in mind that
you will be evaluated using this Rubric.
If you take a closer look, you will see that the categories of the Scientix Rubric correspond
to the categories of the Scientix Lesson plan A rubric is a form of evaluation used instead
of numerical grading.
It is designed in a way that the reviewed will have an idea about the areas he/she has
to improve but also about areas that she/he was excellent in.
Now, let’s go through the suggestions for a fair peer review process:
Go through each of the rubric categories and identify to what extent the lesson plan masters
the particular aspects.
For example: the lesson plan does not mention 21st century skills.
If that is the case, you can mark “The lesson plan does not include any of the 21st century skills”.
For each item, you can also add comments and remarks.
As you can see, the last column is left for leaving comments and remarks to each item.
Every sentence in the rubric corresponds to a different level of mastery.
See the boxes here?
If you want to choose an item, you can either check a box, or you can also highlight the whole cell.
Make sure that you include fair, encouraging and helpful feedback that allows the author
to improve their design.
In your feedback, you can address questions like: Why did you choose that level?
What areas would you identify as strengths?
What areas you feel could be improved?
What would you like to know more about?
In case, you would like to use this rubric with your students, all you need to do is
adapt the rubric to your particular lesson, assess what skills and areas are important
for the particular task and share the guidelines with them.
You can use rubrics to assess your students, or you can help them learn self-assessment
by teaching them how to use this method to assess their own work.
And remember: a rubric is an alternative assessment method – here there is by no means any grading
the level of mastery does not correspond to grades.
Rubrics emphasize strengths and help identify areas/skills that need improvement.
Let’s observe the categories one by one.
The first one, is the aim of the lesson.
The description of the lesson plan should not be longer than a few sentences.
Remember, that a lesson should have only one or two well-defined aims.
Therefore I could write something in the lines of...
The second one is the teaching materials.
The plan should include all the extra tools necessary for the lesson.
This could be online: websites, online games or even a Google folder.
A teaching material can also be offline: such as glue, paper and scissors.
Keep in mind that technology should add to your lesson and not hinder the results.
The third section is for lesson plan and activities.
This should be where the majority of the lesson is described.
In this section, then, every activity should be detailed and time and procedure should
be allocated for all of them.
In this way, I can also ask for clarifications.
In the section for 21st-century skills, it is necessary to explain how the lesson will
correspond to 21st-century skills.
For example: "The lesson will enhance critical thinking, because students will be required
to form their own opinion about a reading or question the result of an activity."
Then, does the lesson plan you’re reviewing fulfill this criteria?
Then comes the real world connections.
Remember that for the STEM Is Everywhere!
MOOC, every lesson plan needs to correspond to real-world problems in STEM education.
It’s possible include a brand new activity that connects the real world to a STEM lesson.
It is also possible to include one from one of the modules in the STEM Is Everywhere!
MOOC.
Both options are valid but should mean a different level of mastery.
The sixth one is assessment and feedback.
The lesson plan should describe the assessment method.
For example a quiz to assess students.
In the feedback section, also, different methods should be described that are available for
students to give feedback and discuss the lesson.
I could then ask: “What options does the student have to assess the lesson?”.
Finally, the General section.
Here you have a chance to see if the lesson plan included all necessary steps and is ready
to be implemented.
Thank you for listening and I hope this will help to guide you through the process of assessing
the other real-world STEM lesson plans!