Sharing is Caring, Right?

educator | musician | consultant
Jocelyn_Armes
1 yr ago

Sharing is Caring, Right?

Teaching often feels like a siloed profession where professionals continually reinvent themselves and content for their students. This feels especially true for educators with multiple preps, or who are the only specialists in their building or on their campus (music teachers, where are you?). But, when we can work together and share labor in service of improving student learning it feels like a win/win!

During my time in the classroom as a music teacher I was often the only specialist in the building (and more than once, in my district!). That meant that I was designing all of my content, syllabi, rubrics, assessments, and processes! But, one year I had a colleague down the hall teaching chorus. That was a magical year, and not just because we could share lunch, laugh over student antics, and support each other. We got to collaborate, designing concert programs, rubrics for assessments, and planning joint performance opportunities for our students. It felt like we could give more to our respective classes and students because we didn’t have to give as much of ourselves to our prep!

You, too, can foster this kind of collaboration, even across content areas. Writing-as-content spans discipline and content areas, so you likely have built-in partnerships just waiting to begin in your building. You can foster this kind of collaboration in Feedback Studio by sharing rubrics for common writing tasks.

Here’s how to get started:

Browse our rubrics for common writing tasks such as short answer, annotated bibliography, evaluating the credibility of a source, and more. These span content areas, increasing the likelihood you’ll be able to share such a rubric with another colleague.