Rubrics and Spirals Amy Kvenvold Grand Canyon University: SPE-330 Special Education Foundations and Frameworks Professor Hebert March 2, 2013 Rubrics and Spirals The purposes of Rubrics and spirals are to evaluate student learning and for teachers it is used to support learning. Both have their definite purpose in education, and can be used to ensure better results for our students. While both can be used as tools for evaluating students, they may not both work for a particular situation. A rubric may be more appropriate for one situation where a spiral will be best for another. Rubrics are a great tool to help students understand expectations for an assignment.
My favorite scene of both the play and film was where Linda kept getting cut off by Willy and I felt it was very humorous. One difference I noticed is that the movie seemed to focus more on Willy losing his mind rather than his American Dream which was more the focus in the play. Another difference is I expected Willy to be bigger as expressed in the play. However, in the movie Willy was smaller. I had hoped the relationship between Biff, played by John Malkovich, and Willy was clearer.
“Family Guy & Freud: Jokes & Their relations to the unconscious”. .They Say, I Say (299-311) New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2012. Print. I watched a television show called Burn Notice, and that show explains through their episodes how a certain individual can take care of themselves in certain situations and gain better focus skills. Some situations that the show brings might not happen in our lives, but it is good to have a better understanding of the situation than not to know.
Also, I think the sixth step related to the evaluation of decisions is also very important and one that I personally struggled sometimes to implement in fact, at times I found myself implementing a decision but never followed through to evaluate if my decision did provide the desired impact and resolved the problem identified in step one. In my professional career I am always facing the need to diagnose and solve problems and the six stages of decision making have given me an opportunity to better understand how I can deploy a consistent method that will allow me to identify an issue, brainstorm potential alternatives, implement the best possible option and then create a feedback system that will allow me to gauge the effectiveness of my decision. This process can also be deployed in a team setting environment in fact I recently faced an issue at work and called a team meeting to discuss action items. During our meeting I followed the six stages of decision making and we were able not only to clearly define the issue at
Others might say a movie is better because the movie does the interpretating for them. A reader who has seen a movie version of her favorite book would say "I liked the book better." That's because while reading a book the reader is or has already made a movie version in their head. When you read a book you have the freedom to decide how you would imagine the characters, setting, location and mood. Janie's auburn red hair can look one way to me but look another way to another person.
The two personal issues that I plan to focus on and improve are gaining self awareness and adopting lifelong learning. By writing will improve my self-awareness and I will improve my English reading and writing by adopting lifelong learning. I will improve my self-awareness by writing. In school, I have a problem with my writing skills, and I was diagnosed with a learning disability. My English is so poor; I want to improve my English.
I was able to gain experience in reflective learning by various activities, such as group presentation and mock interviews that was as part of the module. I was able to reflect on feedbacks given to me by other students. This outlined both my strength and weakness and also equipped me with confidence needed to succeed in the labour market. Entwistle (1998) pointed out that in order to achieve a good grade, Students needs to organise themselves strategically. This will involve time management, reading the right learning materials, putting efforts in studies as well as knowing what teachers expect from you.
Rubrics and spirals are used in and outside of education for various reason and applications. Many teachers and students use rubrics as a guide when writing or completing various types of assignments and projects. The information inside the rubric or spiral lets the student and teachers know what to look for and add into the assignment for the best possible grade. The main focus and purpose of a rubric or spiral is that it gives the student and teacher a step by step guide when completing or grading the assignment to the specific specifications of the assignments goals. Using rubrics and spirals to complete all assignments will ensure the best possible outcome for the student clearly outlining the expectations of the teacher.
These reasons are just scratching the surface on why books are better than the movies The first rationale is that while reading a book the reader is allowed to see what is going on in the characters head, as they make decisions important to the plot. No matter what novel people read the author most of the time, if not always allows the reader in to the mind of the main character. However in movies unless the actor/actress has a diary or there telling someone, the viewer is not allowed that same insight in to the readers mind. For example in the Hunger Games when Rue died and Katniss covered her with flowers. In the book the author went in to her head and described what was made her cover rue with flowers but in the movie people were clueless about why she was doing it cause' they couldn't see her thought behind it, when important information like that is cut out from the movie people who haven't read the book are left completely clueless.
I leaned that sometimes speaking your mind no matter how intimidating can usually pay off in the long run. Writing an essay for my GED was not such a pleasant writing experience. I wrote my essay on my grandmother, and even though I felt it was passionate and detailed the instructor was looking for more. It seems, when writing for a grade, they were looking more for form, punctuation and proper grammar. Disappointed as I was I realized its not always the subject as much as it is your form and process that gets the grade I learned to pay more attention to my technique and process.