Bessons Lessons

After looking far and wide for a good rubric to teach my students the PARCC Narrative Writing expectations, I gave up and made my own. This rubric breaks down the PARCC rubric into 12 distinct areas, and explanations are provided for the trickier areas (such as style and tone). There is also a section at the bottom of the rubric that lists PARCC's 8 narrative elements. Each element is followed by helpful questions that students can ask themselves to make sure that each element was included in th

This rubric is for PARCC's Research Simulation Task and Literary Analysis Task. After looking far and wide for a good rubric to teach my students the PARCC expectations, I gave up and made my own. This rubric breaks down the PARCC RST and LAT rubric into 15 distinct areas, and explanations are provided for the trickier areas (such as style and tone). The actual rubric is in Word, so you can easily change it to fit your needs. Enjoy!

This document is used to have teams create Olympic events. I am using this with my math enrichment class, and I will start out by showing them some of the videos from NBC Learn: http://www.nbclearn.com/science-and-engineering-of-the-2014-olympic-winter-games We will follow up the videos with a discussion, and then students will work to create their own math-rich events. Once we have all of the events, students will compete (3 per event) for Gold, Silver, and Bronze. These medals are printable f

This is a simple, 1-page RTI pyramid template that is blank. Four ideas for uses of the template are listed on the left-hand side. Created in MS Word so that the user can easily make changes.

I caught a student trying to pass off a letter to her mother with my name at the bottom. In the letter, she commended herself and stated that she needed to stay after school every Monday to help tutor other students. I gave this assignment to her as a punishment, and hopefully it won't happen again. I hope you don't need it, but just in case you do, here it is. Enjoy!