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Today Mr. R and I went over the rubric for the lesson that I had taught and the students final product for the project. Although a lot of the students did not have their projects completed the ones who did we graded. In the rubric Mr. R creates he allows the students to grade themselves and give an explanation for their grading decisions, along side these grades is space for Mr. R to put in what grades he gives them in each category (design, craftsmanship, use of technique). Grading was a lot more difficult than I had anticipated, because art metals is my concentration and I tend to pick pieces apart, so I tried to grade liberally. Mr. R noticed my grading was very lenient and told me that if I was to be lenient with their grades when I knew they were capable of more they would stop trying to do better work. This was a very profound piece of information and one that I had not really thought about before.

Today Mr. R also introduced the next project, batik. This is going to be a very interesting project for me to help with because I have never heard of it let alone helped guide students in creating a batik project. When introducing the project Mr. R used the smartboard to peruse the internet to find different examples of batik as well as give a brief history of the process. After all of the background information was given he gave a brief presentation about techniques to be used, it was brief because in the M school district many of the students do batik in elementary and middle school. Finally to conclude the lesson Mr. R goes over the rubric for the assignment and states his expectations.Mr. R does not use lesson plans or curriculum maps, but instead uses rubrics, that outline the expectations for the projects and goes from there.