Teaching Tools: Principles and Practices

• Using Rubrics to Evaluate Student Writing
  • a practical introduction to the use of rubrics; includes references for additional reading and sample rubrics
• Effective Formal Writing Assignments
  • tips for teachers on creating assignments (from the faculty seminar on Teaching and Responding to Student Writing)
• Examples of Writing-to-Learn Activities
  • ways to use writing to improve student understanding (from Writing for Understanding)
• Concept Mapping
  • a writing-to-learn strategy; this website includes software to download and Joseph Novaks's article The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How To Construct Them

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