Marzano Student Rating Scale

Down here in Florida most teachers are becoming quite familiar with the work of Dr. Robert Marzano. His works have been the subject of many staff development meetings over the last two years. A lot of his principles are common sense, good teaching practices. Some are a little harder to implement. But, for better or worse, Marzano is here to stay for a while.

One of the things that we've all been implementing is a student rating scale. It's basically a way to assess how they feel about something they've learned. We have to use a scale of 0-4. There are various ways that the kids can show how they feel, but here's the gist:

Here are some of my beautiful teammates modeling for you how they feel about using the Marzano scale. One of them was showing a different finger, but after some redirecting, she complied quite nicely. We have them hold their fingers over their heart to minimize the urge to look around and compare themselves to what finger others are using. 

Of course, that sign up there was not hang-worthy for my classroom. I had to cute it up. So I make a scale that went along with my flip-flop love affair. It's a freebie on TpT. Just click {HERE} to download a copy.

Here's how I have it displayed in my classroom. Once the kids understand the scale, they don't really have to refer to it very often. It doesn't take up too much room on the board. Ignore the messy junk everywhere...

I do have to use the scale a little more, but after 19 years of NOT doing something, it's hard to make it an automatic part of your day - but the kids do seem to like it.

We have Monday off, so I'm really looking forward to maybe taking down the Christmas tree. Yup, I'm one of those people. eek!