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Examining Student Work: Protocol for Improving Reading Instruction
(Grade K-6)
Cheryl Krehbiel
Course Description:
When teachers have the opportunity to evaluate student work utilizing standards-based rubrics, they strike at the core of teaching and learning. Teachers report that they develop a richer understanding of standards, and that their confidence in making rubric-based judgments about the proficiency of student work increases. Most significantly, teachers report an increase in their expectations regarding the quality of work students can produce. This course is aimed at boosting teacher confidence with standard-based rubrics. Participants will learn how to evaluate performance-based reading tasks designed to measure strategies required by narrative and nonfiction texts. They will also experience scoring with rubrics, and then engage in a discussion that considers how this process informs research-based reading practices in the classroom.
Cheryl Krehbiel
Cheryl Krehbiel is a National Board Certified Teacher with 20 years of experience. In 2001, she became part of a team hired to turn around a high-poverty school in Montgomery County, Maryland. (29% of the students qualify for Limited English Proficient support, and nearly 75% hear and/or speak another language in their homes.) Three years into this reform effort, students have made consistent gains, successfully making AYP in all categories in 2003. Ms. Krehbiel has written for the U.S. Department of Education's Community Update, served as a panelist for several Town Hall national broadcasts for the No Child Left Behind legislation, and is a member of the Teacher Assistance Corps working with states on teacher quality initiatives. Ms. Krehbiel has delivered a number of professional development presentations for colleagues and has presented at numerous conferences, including the National Board Certified Teacher Annual Meeting, the Delaware Council Teachers of Math Summer Institute, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), and the American Education Research Association Annual Meeting. She is currently coordinating the Teacher To Teacher Summer Workshops for the U.S. Department of Education.
