Rubrics

Rubrics, a tool that is used by teachers to grade a student. There are some advantages to using rubrics and one of the main ones is that they (rubrics) help studentsknow what is that the teacher expects from their students in the final product of their assignments. Also I think that rubrics help students recognize their own weaknesses. Also they are a good way to grade because when an assignment is given back, students know exactly where they made a mistake and also it tells the students exactly where the grades are coming from. For example, if a teacher is going to grade an essay, he or she needs to know what he/she is looking for in this assignment. It is going to be easier and fairer, if he/she has a rubric rather than just look at an essay and give a grade. Because what happens if she/he just graded an essay, but the next essay it is of a better quality than the previous one?

When I first heard about rubrics, I had no idea what it was but as I read about it and Dr. Luongo talked about it in class (Teaching Language Arts) I have come to understood the purpose of them and appreciating them. They helped me understand what my weaknesses are and by looking at my future career as a teacher I think that Rubrics is definitely going to be used in my classroom.