According to Kohn, there are more than a few reasons that teachers should detest the use of rubrics in the classroom due to their efforts to standardize student writing output. Furthermore, he stated that, “improving the design of rubrics, or invent...More

The article I chose is one that I recently read for a different class. This article came to mind immediately after reviewing the teaching innovation guidelines and finding out that we would be selecting a mentor text as it stood out to me prior to l...More

The multi-literacies theory was originally developed in contrast to what is traditionally referred to as literacy in the singular, which is learning the standard form of a national language. People were recognizing that this type of literacy did not...More