Assignment
Educational Autobiography Assignment and Rubric
You are required to write a statement that describes your Pk-12 and post-secondary schooling experiences. The autobiography is designed for you to recall and reflect on your PK-12 and post-secondary schooling experiences. You must construct a 2-3 page paper that describes the context of your schooling, structure of school curriculum, specific policies and consequences for students and/or parents, likes and dislikes of your education experience, and the ways these experiences shaped your perspectives on education.
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Criterion |
0 Unacceptable |
2 Need Improvement |
3 Good |
4 Excellent |
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Overview of Your Experiences Description on how communities, schools, teachers, and students influenced your perspectives about teaching and learning. |
No evidence on description of experiences and interpretation of experiences. |
* Vague or limited descriptions of experiences. |
* Detailed descriptions of experience with communities, schools, teachers, and students. *Evidence that shows the interpretation of their experiences.
* Supporting details are carefully selected and relevant.
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* Detailed descriptions of experience with communities, schools, teachers, and students. *Evidence that shows the interpretation of their experiences.
* Supporting details are carefully selected and relevant. *Statements are supported by scholarly literature cited in APA to support your rationale. |
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Identifying Significant experiences and explanation on how your prior experiences and attitudes have influenced your attitude about schooling. |
No evidence provided for this criterion. |
One significant event is described and interpreted. |
*Two significant events are described and interpreted. * Supporting details are carefully selected and relevant.
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*Three or more significant events are described and interpreted. * Supporting details are carefully selected and relevant. *Connections of experiences that are supported and cited using scholarly literature and APA format. |
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Connection of your experiences with ideological and philosophical constructs (theories) and the way it influence your learning, teaching and professional educational practice).
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No evidence provided on the connections between ideological/philosophical constructs to references of past and present experiences |
Provide detailed explanation on how past experiences reflect an ideological/philosophical construct discussed in class. |
Provide explanation on how past and present experiences connect to 1 ideological/philosophical construct discussed in class and how it influence your learning, teaching, and professional practice. |
Provide detailed explanation on how past and present experiences connect to more than 1 ideological/philosophical constructs discussed in class and how it influenced your learning, teaching, and professional practice.. Statements are supported by scholarly literature and cited in APA format to support your rationale. |
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Professionalism
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No evidence provided for explanation on pursuit for teaching, preferred teaching style, and connections with experiences, and goals. |
* Explanation on why you are considering teaching as a career and rationale of preferred teaching style are unclear and requires more details. * Challenging for the reader to find the connections between the experience described and the desire to teach are developed. * Shares 1 goal for pursuing teaching or education.
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* Explanation on why you are considering teaching as a career and rationale of your preferred teaching style are clear and focused. * Some connections and insights between the experiences described and the desire to teach are developed. * 2-3 goals you want to accomplish in your work as an educator are clear and focused.
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* Explanation on why you are considering teaching as a career and rationale of your preferred teaching style are clear and focused. * Some connections and insights between the experiences described and the desire to teach are developed. * 2-3 goals you want to accomplish in your work as an educator are clear and focused. Statements are supported by scholarly literature cited in APA to support your rationale. |
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Mechanics |
More than 6 spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors. |
3-5 spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors |
1-2 spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors |
No spelling, punctuation, grammatical errors. |
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Total |
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20 |