Work in Progress
A Different Kind of Assessment
beginning stance with foot opposite of racquet in front.
- shifts weight from back to front foot.
- simultaneously tosses ball overhead and
raises racquet
-able to hit the ball into the correct box 8 out
of 10 times
-able to vary speed or depth
- snaps wrist
-able to strategically place the ball
Able to hit ball over
eyes on ball at contact
100 mph
-able to place the ball into the correct box
-does not cross serving line
- follows through with racquet across body.
- holds ball between thumb and all four fingers
with thumb pointing to spot of contact.
-toss is proper height
knees bent slightly
Grade this kid’s serve based on what
makes a great serve…
Epic Fail
User-Friendly Rubric
• Go from left to right
• Try to make all the language positive.
• For each column, think of it as a sentence. A
Developing Learner will…
• Imagine a young child learning a new skill. The
beginner category is what someone just starting out
would do. It is not “bad” but just a beginning.
* Think of the Practitioner column as your goal. This is
the A column. Expert is A+.
Using
Utensils
A beginner
will…
A developing
learner will…
A practitioner
will…
An expert
will…
- Pick up and
play with
utensils.
- Pick up
utensil when
encouraged
to.
- Be
interested in
watching
others eat
with utensils
but choose
to eat with
hands.
- Use utensil when
asked to.
- Use utensil to
pick up food
- Often hold
utensil upside
down when
bringing toward
mouth
- Get some food
into mouth via
utensil.
- Use hands as
primary method
of getting food.
- Ask for utensil - Be able to
when one is
figure out
not provided
what kind of
- Use utensil
foods
to pick up
require a
food and as
utensil and
the primary
which do
means of
not
delivering
- Use a knife
food into to
to cut food
mouth.
- Learn
- Know
utensil
whether to
etiquette for
use a fork or
setting and
spoon
eating of
depending
different
on the food.
foods.