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Learn>Learning Catalog>Getting Set Up>Team Rubric Development>Engagement Rubric
Rubrics are owned at the team level, not at the teacher-user level. Every teacher on a team has access to the team rubric and can edit the team rubric. Any edit made by one teacher changes the rubric for ALL teachers at any time during the year.
As a team is developing the rubric that will be used for the year, it may be helpful to have only one team member editing the rubric during the discussion.
The engagement rubric is pre-filled with observable criteria which are research-based indicators of student engagement: makes personal choices, initiates/completes instructional tasks, works with others, and participates in discussions. The team can choose to keep, modify, or delete the pre-filled examples.
There are more than just four indicators of student engagement. The four pre-filled criteria were identified jointly by a CESA 8 consultant and Wisconsin Department of Instruction consultant as being the most likely to be observed across students of various cultural or traditional backgrounds. No criteria are standard across all students.
The team will have to determine which observable aspects of engagement are most likely to be relevant for your students during the school year you are working within.
Additional examples of observable engagement criteria could be:
On-task listening
On-task working
Self-regulated
Adherence to classroom norms
Persists with difficult tasks
To reduce the number of criteria, simply click on the trash can next to the criterion to be removed.
Rubric-level descriptors are also pre-filled. The team should decide on a set of descriptors that will be meaningful when capturing observations of students in the classroom. It is helpful to understand that the descriptors should allow observers to differentiate between multiple degrees of engagement. To reduce the number of rubric levels, simply click on the trash can next to the level to be removed. The levels will automatically adjust so the scale begins at 1.
Additional examples of engagement scales could be:
4-Almost Always
3-Frequently
2-Sometimes
1-Almost never
4-Highly Engaged
3-Moderately Engaged
2-Minimally Engaged
1-Disengaged
The team can have a discussion about what each level (4, 3, 2, 1) means in each of the criterion to come to a common understanding of what each criterion will look like for the students in the classrooms that are being observed.
Keep in mind:
Changes to rubrics will reflect on data already collected
Rubrics are limited to four criteria and four levels, but can be less than four. If you delete a rubric line there will still be a blank entry in the data collection drop down.