Word Grid Puzzles
By Sunil Tanna
Word grid puzzles consist of grid letters arranged in rows and columns. Within the grid are words, than may start at any point, and go off in any direction (horizontal, vertical or diagonal). The task in the puzzle is find all the words hidden within the grid, and it as a result of this feature that these puzzles get their other names such as "word find puzzles" and "word search puzzles".
Many children and adults enjoy solving word grid puzzles, in the case of children there can even be an educational benefit. This is because they can be used to introduce children to new words, thus helping to expand their vocabulary, and also to help children pay attention to the exact spelling of words, and thus hopefully improving their spelling.
Word grid puzzles often appear in newspapers and magazines, and if you publish a newsletter (perhaps for your church or school) or an newsletter (perhaps for your business), you might want to consider including one. They are very suitable for this type of use, since they don't take a lot of space, and can be themed around any topic that you like. Of course, you can't simply copy and republish somebody else's puzzle (that would be infringing copyright), so you will need to create your own.
Creating your own word grid puzzles is possible using just a pen and paper, but you will find it very time consuming and tedious work. A better approach is to use a computer. With the help of some word grid puzzle maker software, it becomes a very easy task - simply enter a list of words, choose a grid size, and the computer can generate a puzzle in seconds.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Physical Therapy
Nitin Chhoda
Physical therapy schools primarily teach you the clinical aspects of therapy, rehabilitation and skills to help people get better and recover from their ailments. What is lacking in the school curriculum is how to market your physical therapy practice and how to run your business.
Your physical therapy degree will not tell you how to get patients to come see you. Physical therapy degree programs don't provide the entry-level physical therapist with the proper skills to make their clinic successful. Getting good results with your patients is an important part of your clinical practice but marketing your clinic is equally as important and needs to be developed as much as the clinical side of the business.
It is important to market your physical therapy practice, whenever possible and make the time each week to develop marketing strategies and implement the marketing plans. You need to talk to and inform people about what you do and what kind of services your clinic offers. In doing so, you will at least keep people informed and increase the exposure of your clinic within the community.
The many different facets of marketing is an ongoing thing that needs constant development and implementation. Marketing is not a one-time thing and expect the physical therapy practice to boom. There are so many different aspects of marketing and a physical therapist must utilize the different types of marketing and promotional practices. You need to find out what kind of marketing will work for your practice. Some therapy clinics spend lots of money on marketing each month, while other don't spend any and they both get the same results.
Don't get caught up with doing the same old marketing that other therapists are doing. Many therapists print expensive colorful brochures, prescription pads and have them sent to doctor's offices. While the doctor's just put your beautiful expensive marketing pads on a big stack of other equally expensive pads from other therapists like you.
Many therapists set up lunches for doctor's offices and try to entice them to send you more patient referrals. However, this practice is not very effective as the doctors are use to the expensive trips and incentives that the pharmaceutical companies are promoting to them. It is hard for the entry-level therapist to compete with so many incentives by the big companies.
There are so many therapists out there doing the same thing. Try to be different and make yourself memorable and stand out from the rest of your contemporaries. One thing you can do is to specialize and make your clinic offer services that are unique and different.
Therapists need to try to upgrade and learn effective marketing skills either through night school, mentoring with other successful therapy practices, or just talking to successful advertising and marketing professionals. Asking professionals in marketing is one of the best ways to gain that edge over your contemporaries and make yourself stand out.
Physical therapy schools need to arm their therapists with more marketing and promotional education, so they can develop and effectively market their clinical skills and also help promote the overall physical therapy rehabilitation field.
Nitin Chhoda
Physical therapy schools primarily teach you the clinical aspects of therapy, rehabilitation and skills to help people get better and recover from their ailments. What is lacking in the school curriculum is how to market your physical therapy practice and how to run your business.
Your physical therapy degree will not tell you how to get patients to come see you. Physical therapy degree programs don't provide the entry-level physical therapist with the proper skills to make their clinic successful. Getting good results with your patients is an important part of your clinical practice but marketing your clinic is equally as important and needs to be developed as much as the clinical side of the business.
It is important to market your physical therapy practice, whenever possible and make the time each week to develop marketing strategies and implement the marketing plans. You need to talk to and inform people about what you do and what kind of services your clinic offers. In doing so, you will at least keep people informed and increase the exposure of your clinic within the community.
The many different facets of marketing is an ongoing thing that needs constant development and implementation. Marketing is not a one-time thing and expect the physical therapy practice to boom. There are so many different aspects of marketing and a physical therapist must utilize the different types of marketing and promotional practices. You need to find out what kind of marketing will work for your practice. Some therapy clinics spend lots of money on marketing each month, while other don't spend any and they both get the same results.
Don't get caught up with doing the same old marketing that other therapists are doing. Many therapists print expensive colorful brochures, prescription pads and have them sent to doctor's offices. While the doctor's just put your beautiful expensive marketing pads on a big stack of other equally expensive pads from other therapists like you.
Many therapists set up lunches for doctor's offices and try to entice them to send you more patient referrals. However, this practice is not very effective as the doctors are use to the expensive trips and incentives that the pharmaceutical companies are promoting to them. It is hard for the entry-level therapist to compete with so many incentives by the big companies.
There are so many therapists out there doing the same thing. Try to be different and make yourself memorable and stand out from the rest of your contemporaries. One thing you can do is to specialize and make your clinic offer services that are unique and different.
Therapists need to try to upgrade and learn effective marketing skills either through night school, mentoring with other successful therapy practices, or just talking to successful advertising and marketing professionals. Asking professionals in marketing is one of the best ways to gain that edge over your contemporaries and make yourself stand out.
Physical therapy schools need to arm their therapists with more marketing and promotional education, so they can develop and effectively market their clinical skills and also help promote the overall physical therapy rehabilitation field.
How to Create a Quiz
By Kerry Vincent
Quizzes are a very important part of the learning process. If students pass the quiz teachers move on to the next chapter and if they don't then they have to spend more time going over student's queries.
First, decide whether you want to give a quiz by each chapter or by unit. If you think that your child is a slow learner then organizing a quiz after every chapter will help your child understand better, rather than cumulative testing.
For creating quiz material you need to gather proper information. Start with using your child's textbook and ask yourself what the important points in the chapter are? Note them down on a piece of paper.
Try to make the quiz a bit fun. Don't just add fill-in-the-blank answers. This may seem a bit boring to kids and your kid may end up complaining. Add multiple-choice as well as true-and-false questions and include some random facts. Switch it up for them and keep them off balanced and see if they can learn on their feet.
Math can be done in the following formats:
For example: 8 x 12 = a. 66 b. 60 c. 96 d. Argentina
True or False: 4 x 12 = 72
Often these formats are appealing for kids. Here's a tip: For excellent results add a different section of true-and-false and a different section for fill-in-the-blanks and so on.
Don't forget to grade the quiz and check the problems that your child has forgotten. Go back to the textbook and try to explain the chapter again where you found your child weak.
By Kerry Vincent
Quizzes are a very important part of the learning process. If students pass the quiz teachers move on to the next chapter and if they don't then they have to spend more time going over student's queries.
First, decide whether you want to give a quiz by each chapter or by unit. If you think that your child is a slow learner then organizing a quiz after every chapter will help your child understand better, rather than cumulative testing.
For creating quiz material you need to gather proper information. Start with using your child's textbook and ask yourself what the important points in the chapter are? Note them down on a piece of paper.
Try to make the quiz a bit fun. Don't just add fill-in-the-blank answers. This may seem a bit boring to kids and your kid may end up complaining. Add multiple-choice as well as true-and-false questions and include some random facts. Switch it up for them and keep them off balanced and see if they can learn on their feet.
Math can be done in the following formats:
For example: 8 x 12 = a. 66 b. 60 c. 96 d. Argentina
True or False: 4 x 12 = 72
Often these formats are appealing for kids. Here's a tip: For excellent results add a different section of true-and-false and a different section for fill-in-the-blanks and so on.
Don't forget to grade the quiz and check the problems that your child has forgotten. Go back to the textbook and try to explain the chapter again where you found your child weak.
Caesar's First Brush With the British Celts
By Mike J. Bond
Caesar paid Britain a visit in August 55 B.C.E., and life as the Celts knew it would never be the same again. Caesar was in Gaul, but found that the Celts from Britain were helping their friends across the Channel with troops and supplies. This was quite unacceptable to Caesar and was one of the reasons for his foray into Britain.
More importantly, however, conquering Britain would bring him tremendous prestige at home. His unbounded ambition was to rule all of Rome, and victory against the Celts would help him no end.
The third reason was that if he wanted to rule Rome, he'd need an enormous amount of money. From the rumours that had tickled his ears, such wealth was to be found in the interior of Britain.
August was late in the season for campaigning, and Caesar was in a hurry. He set off with two legions, Legio XII and Legio X. He knew he needed cavalry, but there seems to have been so much confusion loading the horses, that he gave orders for them to come when they were ready.
He'd been advised that the best place to land was Dover, or Dubris as he knew it. He found it to be an excellent spot, except for one thing. The cliffs and hills were massed with Celtic warriors and any attempt at landing would be met with a forest of javelins, and he knew perfectly well that he'd probably sustain unacceptable casualties.
Caesar sailed slowly around the coast for another 7 miles, eventually landing at Walmer, two miles due south of Deal. The Celts followed him all the way. This landing spot was a lot better than Dover in one sense. The problem was that the ships were unable to come any closer than about 200 yards to the shore. This meant that the soldiers were forced to wade onto the beach.
They came under sling and javelin fire, which threw them into temporary distraction, but Caesar brought his slings, archers and ballistae to bear on the Celts. The ballistae were particularly fearsome weapons. They were like huge crossbows, and fired a great iron bolt. All this threw the Celts into confusion and gave the soldiers a chance to land and to form up in battle detail. Once they were organised, they advanced on the Celts with typical Roman discipline and put the Celts to flight.
To begin with, the soldiers were decidedly nervous of these big, naked men covered in blue paint, or woad as it was named. The Celts, for their part, weren't used to fighting a battle against such well organized and disciplined troops, and they were thrown into confusion. The Roman cavalry had yet to arrive, and Caesar was unable to chase the Celts down as he would have liked.
Some days later, a gale blew up and prevented the cavalry from landing at all. Legio XII went foraging as soon as the gale was over and cut corn. This, thought the Celts, was a fine time to attack. They did so with cavalry and chariots, and the Legion barely held on. Fortunately for them, Caesar came up with a relief column and the Celts were put to flight.
Individually, they were magnificent warriors, but they completely lacked cohesion. As we've already seen, when the Roman troops landed and eventually formed up in full battle array, the Celts were thrown into panicked chaos.
However, the Celts were well aware that Caesar had only a limited number of troops and that he'd lost his cavalry. Caesar was only too aware of his position, though, and a few days later, he slipped away in the middle of the night, making an uneventful crossing to Gaul.
So ended what was, in fact, Caesar's reconnaissance in force. It was never meant to be an invasion. That would be for another day
By Mike J. Bond
Caesar paid Britain a visit in August 55 B.C.E., and life as the Celts knew it would never be the same again. Caesar was in Gaul, but found that the Celts from Britain were helping their friends across the Channel with troops and supplies. This was quite unacceptable to Caesar and was one of the reasons for his foray into Britain.
More importantly, however, conquering Britain would bring him tremendous prestige at home. His unbounded ambition was to rule all of Rome, and victory against the Celts would help him no end.
The third reason was that if he wanted to rule Rome, he'd need an enormous amount of money. From the rumours that had tickled his ears, such wealth was to be found in the interior of Britain.
August was late in the season for campaigning, and Caesar was in a hurry. He set off with two legions, Legio XII and Legio X. He knew he needed cavalry, but there seems to have been so much confusion loading the horses, that he gave orders for them to come when they were ready.
He'd been advised that the best place to land was Dover, or Dubris as he knew it. He found it to be an excellent spot, except for one thing. The cliffs and hills were massed with Celtic warriors and any attempt at landing would be met with a forest of javelins, and he knew perfectly well that he'd probably sustain unacceptable casualties.
Caesar sailed slowly around the coast for another 7 miles, eventually landing at Walmer, two miles due south of Deal. The Celts followed him all the way. This landing spot was a lot better than Dover in one sense. The problem was that the ships were unable to come any closer than about 200 yards to the shore. This meant that the soldiers were forced to wade onto the beach.
They came under sling and javelin fire, which threw them into temporary distraction, but Caesar brought his slings, archers and ballistae to bear on the Celts. The ballistae were particularly fearsome weapons. They were like huge crossbows, and fired a great iron bolt. All this threw the Celts into confusion and gave the soldiers a chance to land and to form up in battle detail. Once they were organised, they advanced on the Celts with typical Roman discipline and put the Celts to flight.
To begin with, the soldiers were decidedly nervous of these big, naked men covered in blue paint, or woad as it was named. The Celts, for their part, weren't used to fighting a battle against such well organized and disciplined troops, and they were thrown into confusion. The Roman cavalry had yet to arrive, and Caesar was unable to chase the Celts down as he would have liked.
Some days later, a gale blew up and prevented the cavalry from landing at all. Legio XII went foraging as soon as the gale was over and cut corn. This, thought the Celts, was a fine time to attack. They did so with cavalry and chariots, and the Legion barely held on. Fortunately for them, Caesar came up with a relief column and the Celts were put to flight.
Individually, they were magnificent warriors, but they completely lacked cohesion. As we've already seen, when the Roman troops landed and eventually formed up in full battle array, the Celts were thrown into panicked chaos.
However, the Celts were well aware that Caesar had only a limited number of troops and that he'd lost his cavalry. Caesar was only too aware of his position, though, and a few days later, he slipped away in the middle of the night, making an uneventful crossing to Gaul.
So ended what was, in fact, Caesar's reconnaissance in force. It was never meant to be an invasion. That would be for another day
Friday, June 12, 2009
Two Fun Ways to Improve Your Spoken English
You learned English through grammar, repetition, written sentences, memorisation and boring old textbooks. In fact, the only speaking practice you might have had was to repeat after your teacher OR repeat after an audio! Unfortunately many schools only teach English as a language of study and NOT a language of communication. You probably know what a "relative clause" is or "the use of modals" because that is how English was taught to you. You therefore never got to really practice how to communicate in a meaningful way. Well English is a live language and it is fun to communicate on things that really interest you. So you will therefore need to think differently about how you can learn faster and in a much more interesting way and not like the way your school taught you.
Here is a fun way to begin...Listen to natural English...Listen, listen, listen - to native speakers! You need to tune in to natural English and do this on a regular basis. This will give you a great foundation. I have taught students who only listened to movies and radio programmes and when they came to me, their ability to reproduce natural language was amazing!
This is what I recommend using movies:
1. Select an English speaking movie that you love and that has subtitles in your own language. 2. Select a scene that you enjoy, turn down the English sound and then watch it with the subtitles so that you know what it is about. 3. Then, turn on the sound, listen and watch it with the subtitles. 4. So now, turn off the subtitles and watch it while listening. 5. Do this over and over again and then test yourself by replaying the scene and see if you can speak the lines just like the actors. 6. Fabulous - you are now listening to native speakers and speaking like them as well.
It's the same technique with music - that's how we learn in natural life if we really like a song. We listen to it over and over and then all of a sudden we know all of the words and we can sing it naturally by ourselves. Sounds help us learn faster so learning a language that is set to a tune will help you remember it better. This is great too if you love karaoke and singing along to music videos, MP3's or itunes.
This is what I recommend using songs:
1. Select a song with a tune that you especially like and that is sung by a native speaker of English. 2. Find the words online for the song. 3. Practice with the chorus first because it usually repeats itself through the song. 4. Read the words while you are listening to the chorus. 5. Listen again without looking at the words. 6. Listen and sing the words with the singer. 7. Do this until you can sing the words without looking at them.
Listening to your favourite English songs and English speaking movies will help improve your listening and speaking skills. You can use these two techniques everyday and they will cost only your time as you can easily download music and movies from the internet.
You learned English through grammar, repetition, written sentences, memorisation and boring old textbooks. In fact, the only speaking practice you might have had was to repeat after your teacher OR repeat after an audio! Unfortunately many schools only teach English as a language of study and NOT a language of communication. You probably know what a "relative clause" is or "the use of modals" because that is how English was taught to you. You therefore never got to really practice how to communicate in a meaningful way. Well English is a live language and it is fun to communicate on things that really interest you. So you will therefore need to think differently about how you can learn faster and in a much more interesting way and not like the way your school taught you.
Here is a fun way to begin...Listen to natural English...Listen, listen, listen - to native speakers! You need to tune in to natural English and do this on a regular basis. This will give you a great foundation. I have taught students who only listened to movies and radio programmes and when they came to me, their ability to reproduce natural language was amazing!
This is what I recommend using movies:
1. Select an English speaking movie that you love and that has subtitles in your own language. 2. Select a scene that you enjoy, turn down the English sound and then watch it with the subtitles so that you know what it is about. 3. Then, turn on the sound, listen and watch it with the subtitles. 4. So now, turn off the subtitles and watch it while listening. 5. Do this over and over again and then test yourself by replaying the scene and see if you can speak the lines just like the actors. 6. Fabulous - you are now listening to native speakers and speaking like them as well.
It's the same technique with music - that's how we learn in natural life if we really like a song. We listen to it over and over and then all of a sudden we know all of the words and we can sing it naturally by ourselves. Sounds help us learn faster so learning a language that is set to a tune will help you remember it better. This is great too if you love karaoke and singing along to music videos, MP3's or itunes.
This is what I recommend using songs:
1. Select a song with a tune that you especially like and that is sung by a native speaker of English. 2. Find the words online for the song. 3. Practice with the chorus first because it usually repeats itself through the song. 4. Read the words while you are listening to the chorus. 5. Listen again without looking at the words. 6. Listen and sing the words with the singer. 7. Do this until you can sing the words without looking at them.
Listening to your favourite English songs and English speaking movies will help improve your listening and speaking skills. You can use these two techniques everyday and they will cost only your time as you can easily download music and movies from the internet.
Three Easiest Ways to Learn French
Do you find yourself too slow to learn a new language? For years, I've been unable to learn and catch up a new language even though I always wanted to. I've always dream of migrating to Europe and start my new life full of romance there, but language has always been my barrier.
All this changed when I've got my perfect chance; my manager asked me if I can oversee a project in France for a year. I was ecstatic and looking forward to it; until I remember that I cannot even spoke a single word in French!
I was pressured to learn French language in a month. I've tried before going for formal classes, but it didn't work for me. I need something more, so I jumped to the Internet to check if I can learn French in a very easy way. That's when I found out about learning French using software.
Learning French using software is simply going through online program available in the Internet to familiarize yourself with the words and how it's being pronounce. So, apart from learning the grammar and words by reading, you can also memorize all the vocabulary in that language. Some good program in the Internet offers audio which you can load into your MP3 player to listen all over again.
You can also do what I did last year in order to master a new language. Here are the steps on how I did it:
1) Get pressured and motivated: Whether you wanted your child to learn French, or you want to learn it for yourself - it's better if you have motivation and being pressured for it. It's the one thing that will keep you going. Find your reason to success, and you are most likely to be one. For me, it was the opportunity that I got. For you, I would suggest that you get motivated by investing in a good online French lesson.
2) Learn by not reading only: While I don't doubt that reading can help you understand and is the #1 most important ways to study, it can be most boring; especially when you're learning a new language. That's why I suggest that you learn not by reading only. In my case, I learnt by using audio - which I always listen to even though while I sleep.
3) Let your intention be known: It's easier to learn a new language when you are being supported. In my case, I let my family and my girlfriend know, and they supported me. That leads to certain conversations being done in French; just so I can practice my newly learned language.
So there you have it. That's how you can easily learn a new language without having to read a whole lot of books. Good luck on your journey to the new language!By Sallehin Sallehuddin
Do you find yourself too slow to learn a new language? For years, I've been unable to learn and catch up a new language even though I always wanted to. I've always dream of migrating to Europe and start my new life full of romance there, but language has always been my barrier.
All this changed when I've got my perfect chance; my manager asked me if I can oversee a project in France for a year. I was ecstatic and looking forward to it; until I remember that I cannot even spoke a single word in French!
I was pressured to learn French language in a month. I've tried before going for formal classes, but it didn't work for me. I need something more, so I jumped to the Internet to check if I can learn French in a very easy way. That's when I found out about learning French using software.
Learning French using software is simply going through online program available in the Internet to familiarize yourself with the words and how it's being pronounce. So, apart from learning the grammar and words by reading, you can also memorize all the vocabulary in that language. Some good program in the Internet offers audio which you can load into your MP3 player to listen all over again.
You can also do what I did last year in order to master a new language. Here are the steps on how I did it:
1) Get pressured and motivated: Whether you wanted your child to learn French, or you want to learn it for yourself - it's better if you have motivation and being pressured for it. It's the one thing that will keep you going. Find your reason to success, and you are most likely to be one. For me, it was the opportunity that I got. For you, I would suggest that you get motivated by investing in a good online French lesson.
2) Learn by not reading only: While I don't doubt that reading can help you understand and is the #1 most important ways to study, it can be most boring; especially when you're learning a new language. That's why I suggest that you learn not by reading only. In my case, I learnt by using audio - which I always listen to even though while I sleep.
3) Let your intention be known: It's easier to learn a new language when you are being supported. In my case, I let my family and my girlfriend know, and they supported me. That leads to certain conversations being done in French; just so I can practice my newly learned language.
So there you have it. That's how you can easily learn a new language without having to read a whole lot of books. Good luck on your journey to the new language!By Sallehin Sallehuddin
Monday, June 8, 2009
Tips on Grading Class Work By Tiffany Provost,
Teachers know their work isn't done at the end of the school day. Assignments still have to be marked. If you want to make your life easier and take back some of your day after you've finished teaching, follow this advice on making the process of grading easier.
Consider the working of rubrics. An easy way has been devised marking student work objectively. The most popular way to do this has been to use rubrics. A rubric is basically a chart or score sheet that has five columns across and a number of rows down - depending on the number of categories to be marked.
The columns illustrate the different marks a student can receive on an assignment. The columns are D - C - B - A or 1 - 2 - 3 - 4, labeled accordingly. It is your option as to which grading method you choose. Begin with the lower grades on the left and work your way up to the highest grade on the right. Left blank will be the top left-hand corner box.
The rows of a rubric display the different levels of work for each section. So if you fill in the first box in a row with the category you're going to grade students on (such as spelling grammar, research skills) and then you would to fill out what is considered a "D" or a "1", or a "C" or a"2" for that skill category. Make small notes to yourself as brief examples of what classifies as each level of work.
Discuss the rubric. After completing the rubric with all categories and descriptions of each level of work, you can introduce the rubric to the class. Display it on the overhead projector and give every student a copy to look over. You will likely have to take some time to explain it. Just have them understand that you'll be marking them on for this assignment, along with the lowest and highest standard of work that you would want to receive. Providing this in written form for the students allows them the opportunity to see what they are required to do to pass the assignment.
Send a blank rubric home for the project. To help keep parents in the loop send home a rubric sheet. This way students cannot use the excuse that they 'did not know' what you were looking for. Your easy grading rubric should make all that clear.
You will need to have a rubric for each student's assignment. Once assignments have been collected and they are ready for marking, you must have a rubric for each student or each assignment. Mark the work and as you go along, look for indications of each level of work for the categories you outlined. When reading the assignment is complete, highlight the level that the student performed at in each category, leaving a few remarks at the bottom, and then go on to the next student. You will grade papers so much faster and enjoy how much easier it is.
Teachers know their work isn't done at the end of the school day. Assignments still have to be marked. If you want to make your life easier and take back some of your day after you've finished teaching, follow this advice on making the process of grading easier.
Consider the working of rubrics. An easy way has been devised marking student work objectively. The most popular way to do this has been to use rubrics. A rubric is basically a chart or score sheet that has five columns across and a number of rows down - depending on the number of categories to be marked.
The columns illustrate the different marks a student can receive on an assignment. The columns are D - C - B - A or 1 - 2 - 3 - 4, labeled accordingly. It is your option as to which grading method you choose. Begin with the lower grades on the left and work your way up to the highest grade on the right. Left blank will be the top left-hand corner box.
The rows of a rubric display the different levels of work for each section. So if you fill in the first box in a row with the category you're going to grade students on (such as spelling grammar, research skills) and then you would to fill out what is considered a "D" or a "1", or a "C" or a"2" for that skill category. Make small notes to yourself as brief examples of what classifies as each level of work.
Discuss the rubric. After completing the rubric with all categories and descriptions of each level of work, you can introduce the rubric to the class. Display it on the overhead projector and give every student a copy to look over. You will likely have to take some time to explain it. Just have them understand that you'll be marking them on for this assignment, along with the lowest and highest standard of work that you would want to receive. Providing this in written form for the students allows them the opportunity to see what they are required to do to pass the assignment.
Send a blank rubric home for the project. To help keep parents in the loop send home a rubric sheet. This way students cannot use the excuse that they 'did not know' what you were looking for. Your easy grading rubric should make all that clear.
You will need to have a rubric for each student's assignment. Once assignments have been collected and they are ready for marking, you must have a rubric for each student or each assignment. Mark the work and as you go along, look for indications of each level of work for the categories you outlined. When reading the assignment is complete, highlight the level that the student performed at in each category, leaving a few remarks at the bottom, and then go on to the next student. You will grade papers so much faster and enjoy how much easier it is.
Tips on Grading Class Work By Tiffany Provost,
Teachers know their work isn't done at the end of the school day. Assignments still have to be marked. If you want to make your life easier and take back some of your day after you've finished teaching, follow this advice on making the process of grading easier.
Consider the working of rubrics. An easy way has been devised marking student work objectively. The most popular way to do this has been to use rubrics. A rubric is basically a chart or score sheet that has five columns across and a number of rows down - depending on the number of categories to be marked.
The columns illustrate the different marks a student can receive on an assignment. The columns are D - C - B - A or 1 - 2 - 3 - 4, labeled accordingly. It is your option as to which grading method you choose. Begin with the lower grades on the left and work your way up to the highest grade on the right. Left blank will be the top left-hand corner box.
The rows of a rubric display the different levels of work for each section. So if you fill in the first box in a row with the category you're going to grade students on (such as spelling grammar, research skills) and then you would to fill out what is considered a "D" or a "1", or a "C" or a"2" for that skill category. Make small notes to yourself as brief examples of what classifies as each level of work.
Discuss the rubric. After completing the rubric with all categories and descriptions of each level of work, you can introduce the rubric to the class. Display it on the overhead projector and give every student a copy to look over. You will likely have to take some time to explain it. Just have them understand that you'll be marking them on for this assignment, along with the lowest and highest standard of work that you would want to receive. Providing this in written form for the students allows them the opportunity to see what they are required to do to pass the assignment.
Send a blank rubric home for the project. To help keep parents in the loop send home a rubric sheet. This way students cannot use the excuse that they 'did not know' what you were looking for. Your easy grading rubric should make all that clear.
You will need to have a rubric for each student's assignment. Once assignments have been collected and they are ready for marking, you must have a rubric for each student or each assignment. Mark the work and as you go along, look for indications of each level of work for the categories you outlined. When reading the assignment is complete, highlight the level that the student performed at in each category, leaving a few remarks at the bottom, and then go on to the next student. You will grade papers so much faster and enjoy how much easier it is.
Teachers know their work isn't done at the end of the school day. Assignments still have to be marked. If you want to make your life easier and take back some of your day after you've finished teaching, follow this advice on making the process of grading easier.
Consider the working of rubrics. An easy way has been devised marking student work objectively. The most popular way to do this has been to use rubrics. A rubric is basically a chart or score sheet that has five columns across and a number of rows down - depending on the number of categories to be marked.
The columns illustrate the different marks a student can receive on an assignment. The columns are D - C - B - A or 1 - 2 - 3 - 4, labeled accordingly. It is your option as to which grading method you choose. Begin with the lower grades on the left and work your way up to the highest grade on the right. Left blank will be the top left-hand corner box.
The rows of a rubric display the different levels of work for each section. So if you fill in the first box in a row with the category you're going to grade students on (such as spelling grammar, research skills) and then you would to fill out what is considered a "D" or a "1", or a "C" or a"2" for that skill category. Make small notes to yourself as brief examples of what classifies as each level of work.
Discuss the rubric. After completing the rubric with all categories and descriptions of each level of work, you can introduce the rubric to the class. Display it on the overhead projector and give every student a copy to look over. You will likely have to take some time to explain it. Just have them understand that you'll be marking them on for this assignment, along with the lowest and highest standard of work that you would want to receive. Providing this in written form for the students allows them the opportunity to see what they are required to do to pass the assignment.
Send a blank rubric home for the project. To help keep parents in the loop send home a rubric sheet. This way students cannot use the excuse that they 'did not know' what you were looking for. Your easy grading rubric should make all that clear.
You will need to have a rubric for each student's assignment. Once assignments have been collected and they are ready for marking, you must have a rubric for each student or each assignment. Mark the work and as you go along, look for indications of each level of work for the categories you outlined. When reading the assignment is complete, highlight the level that the student performed at in each category, leaving a few remarks at the bottom, and then go on to the next student. You will grade papers so much faster and enjoy how much easier it is.
Monday, June 1, 2009
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