As a middle school teacher, I can say yes, this definitely does translate. I was surprised at the beginning of the year by how much my students want my approval of their work. I think you can help them learn to self-evaluate though. A couple of things I’ve done is first to just ask them if they think something is good. Often my writing assignments have criteria that have to be fulfilled. I ask them to check their work against the criteria. I think the biggest help to showing people how to self-evaluate is modelling. I take a piece of my writing, and show my students what I do with it, and how they might begin to look at theirs. I’ve found it to be a very slow process because of everything else that’s tied up with this question—the use of grades, approval from those who give the rewards, etc…
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Apr 23 2002
05:03 am
As a middle school teacher, I can say yes, this definitely does translate. I was surprised at the beginning of the year by how much my students want my approval of their work. I think you can help them learn to self-evaluate though. A couple of things I’ve done is first to just ask them if they think something is good. Often my writing assignments have criteria that have to be fulfilled. I ask them to check their work against the criteria. I think the biggest help to showing people how to self-evaluate is modelling. I take a piece of my writing, and show my students what I do with it, and how they might begin to look at theirs. I’ve found it to be a very slow process because of everything else that’s tied up with this question—the use of grades, approval from those who give the rewards, etc…