Saint Valentine's day in a Winter course!

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Happy Saint Valentine's to all my friends!

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Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day, is a holiday observed on February 14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards , I want to offer my blog for all my friends in this Winter Course.







This lovely week one of my main task is to create a "Rubric"

Rubrics help me and my students to be objective, clear,sincere with the assesment and help to my students to develop the best performance in their evaluations.As teacher a Rubric make me my evaluation process easier because I follow the pattern and I can observe specific elements to evaluate and adjust criteria and the degree of each of them according to my main goal or purpose in the class.

According to:TLT Group (Teaching, Learning and Technology group:It is a nonprofit organization) explains what is a rubric and found it a complete definition:


" A rubric is an explicit set of criteria used for assessing a particular type of work or performance. A rubric usually also includes levels of potential achievement for each criterion, and sometimes also includes work or performance samples that typify each of those levels. Levels of achievement are often given numerical scores. A summary score for the work being assessed may be produced by adding the scores for each criterion. The rubric may also include space for the judge to describe the reasons for each judgment or to make suggestions for the author".





My Rubric for a Poster Presentation:

There are many Rubric Builders,and I decided to work with a pattern of "Builder Constructor" from the site: www.teach-nology.com,to evaluate my students oral presentation about a poster and to evaluate the poster design I took as example a pattern from University of Kansas showed by Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Assessment and Rubric Information.In webpage: Recipes4sucess,there are more patterns to evaluate posters too.

My specific example is:

Student Group: Endangered Animals.5th Science “C”. Orinoco Crocodile.
Grammar to be studied: Don’t/should/shouldn’t



Criteria to be evaluated during the oral presentation:

@ Helping:

The teacher observed the students offering assistance to each other, in the moment to answer questions.

@ Listening:The teacher observed students answering according to the main question ,and understood evaluators questions.

@ Participating:
The teacher observed each student contributing and helping each other during the project presentation.

@ Persuading:
The teacher observed the students: defending, and rethinking ideas in front of the audience and teachers’ evaluators.

@ Questioning:
The teacher observed the students interacting, discussing, and supporting each other during all presentation of the team.

@ Respecting:
The teacher observed the students encouraging and supporting the ideas and efforts of others.

@Sharing:
The teacher observed the students offering ideas and reporting their findings to each other.


Examples of Poster Presentation:





Endangered Animals:









Biotechnology Project:





U.E.N.Nicanor Bolet Peraza Poster presentations:

High Schools Halls:

PBL : Project Based Learning

PBL is a synonim of "Authentic Learning Activities", that encourage teacher and students to work together and to start collaborative activities, respectful attitude and independency in teams of work. Teacher and student can find solutions to problems and they can make a real evaluation plan where their english learning skill could be reinforce or learned in an effective way with or without technology included.
PBL must take into considerations elements that show that is a real PBL, I will introduce this statement:

(http://pbl-online.org/About/whatisPBL.htm)

Project Based Learning is generally done by groups of students working together toward a common goal. Performance is assessed on an individual basis, and takes into account the quality of the product produced, the depth of content understanding demonstrated, and the contributions made to the ongoing process of project realization.

Project: Recicled products.
5TH YEAR High school students.
2011-2012



Dress made of newspaper pages.






Write Saint Valentine's PostCards:
High School 9th grade.




Next February 14th I'll celebrate Saint Valentine's Day writing postcards to friends out of Caracas.

I'll use a friend rubric' criteria as a pattern to build up my own pattern to write postcards if she doesn't have problems my partner Marina, designed letter Rubrics using Rubistar and each criteria could be adapt to evaluate postcards too.