Project Planning Rubric

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Targeted Standards

All standards identified in unit are a focus of instruction and assessment throughout Plan.

The standards in unit are implied throughout Plan, but some are not specifically shown as being part of instruction or assessment.

The standards seem to be addressed in Plan, but they are vague.

Plan does not address the standards in any meaningful way.

Objectives

Objectives describe specific behaviors, knowledge, and/or products that relate to standards and can be assessed and understood at a deep level, where relevant unit concepts are applied.

Objectives describe specific behaviors, knowledge, and/or products that meet standards and reflect understanding of relevant unit concepts.

Objectives describe behaviors, knowledge, and/or products that are rather vague and only require superficial understanding of unit concepts.

Objectives describe vague behaviors, knowledge, and/or products that do not require understanding of unit concepts.

Curriculum-Framing Questions: Essential Question

Essential Question centers on a philosophical, moral, or thought-provoking theme that is interesting and important to students and requires them to think deeply about the concepts across units as they make their learning personally meaningful.

Essential Question centers on a topic that is either interesting or important to students and is written so they will understand it.

Essential Question addresses students’ interest or concerns, but not both, and may be written in language that is difficult for them to understand.

Essential Question does not address either students’ interests or concerns and is written in language they do not understand.

Assessment Plan

Assessment plan matches and addresses all of the targeted standards and objectives.

Assessment plan matches and addresses most of the targeted standards and objectives.

Assessment plan matches and addresses some of the targeted standards and objectives.

Assessment plan does not match or address the targeted standards and objectives.

Assessment Plan: Formative Assessments

Both formal and informal and peer- and self-assessments are used throughout out unit.

A variety of formative assessments are used throughout our unit.

A few formative assessments are used in our unit and address some of the assessment purposes.

Assessment in our unit is only done at the end of the unit and/or is only used for grading purposes.

Assessment Plan: Summative Assessments

Our final product or performance assessment appropriately emphasizes content over organization, structure, and graphic elements.

Our final product or performance assessment generally emphasizes content and higher-order thinking over design features of the project.

Our final product or performance assessment slightly emphasizes design over content and higher-order thinking.

Our final product or performance assessment emphasizes organization, structure, and graphic elements more than content and

higher-order thinking.

Procedures: Student Work

The work our students complete in this unit is authentic, meaningful, and resembles the kinds of work people do in real life.

The work our students complete in this unit is meaningful and has elements that resemble the kinds of work people do in real life.

The work our students do in this unit has a few elements that resemble the kinds of work people do in real life.

The work our students complete in this unit does not resemble authentic work in a discipline in any way.

Procedures: Technology Integration

The use of technology enhances our plan by creatively supporting and developing students' research, publishing, collaboration, and communication skills.

The use of technology enhances Plan by supporting and developing students' research, publishing, collaboration, and communication skills.

The use of technology in Plan is limited to supporting students' research, publishing, collaboration, or communication skills.

Plan does not take advantage of research, publishing, collaboration, or communication capabilities.

Overall Procedures

Our plan has well thought-out, detailed instructions and procedures that make the unit easy to implement.

Plan has instructions and procedures that serve as an effective guide for implementation.

Plan has instructions and procedures, but some areas are unclear, making implementation difficult.

Plan lacks clarity and is not an effective guide for implementation.