Implementing Rubrics in a Primary Classroom

Hello friends! 🙂

Something that I’ve been working on updating over the summer is my rubrics! 🙂 In my classroom, we have to have rubrics on display. We use them to introduce lessons and also to help the children understand where they are in relation to the overarching goal for their learning. Today, I wanted to talk a little bit about how I use rubrics to help students self monitor their progress.

About two years ago, our district decided that we needed to start grading students with rubrics more often, and that we needed a fidelity piece to show that the students were being taught how to self-monitor their progress.

I developed my first set of standards driven rubrics two years ago.

Then, the following year, I developed the corresponding flip book rubrics for self-monitoring. Last year was my first year using both all year, and it was so helpful to me as I worked with the students! 🙂

I have rubrics for Kindergarten, and First Grade, Second Grade is in the works…but I’ve just now finished the new previews for the Kindergarten ones so…I’ll share that first! 🙂

I created five point rubrics. This means that they have 5 numbers–0, 1, 2, 3, & 4.

The LEVEL 3 objective is taken directly from the standard.

The LEVEL 4 objective is from the next grade up.

The levels below 3 are a blend of remedial skills.

I offer all of the rubric sets in a grade level as a bundle.

Each bundle comes with the ELA set and the Math set.

To make it easier on myself to teach the goals set out by the standards, I bundled together the standards that supported the overarching goals. This way I can go back to the rubric and remind myself of the long term goal of my lessons.

Once I developed the rubric, I realized that this was not enough to help my students identify exactly where they were in the process of learning.

I needed something more tangible.

This is easier to do the older students get, but when you teach in a primary setting…this is a challenge.

So…enter my flip book rubrics! 🙂

These two tools have helped me to assist my students in progress monitoring in a big way! 🙂
It’s a great tool to use in parent conferences, and also as a fidelity piece with administrators after an observation.
Because the students learn how to mark their flip books on their own, this would be a fantastic resource for student lead conferences as well.
If you are interested in my Flip Book Rubrics for First Grade Math, please click HERE.