Reflective Writing Assignment

When approaching this assignment, my big worry was creating something that I myself found interesting and something that students would find interesting. In my secondary education career, I remember many activities where I myself was disinterested and didn’t have a reason to care and it also seemed like in these cases the teacher also didn’t care, they just wanted to make us quiet for the class period so they could mind their own business or catch up on whatever they were behind on. Because of this, I wanted to create an assignment based on a lesson on symbolism that included not only traditional forms of symbolism in literature/artwork, but also one that included references to pop culture and film. In addition, giving students a choice in what to write about based on what’s personally important to them. The creation …show more content…
However, after doing so, I relied completely on my rubric to create an accurate as possible representation of what it would be like if I were to use this in a classroom setting. Each of the people did my assignment did well and followed the rubric. Because of this, they both received an A grade. Although using the rubric to grade the work was somewhat easy, writing comments and a few sentences at the end proved to be challenging. Although there were several items of note to be underlined or commented on in each paper, choosing a few was hard. Deciding what exactly to write and ensuring that there was real meaning behind it in order to actively help students was an aspect that I also struggled at, especially with the first paper that I graded. When writing comments at the bottom of the rubrics, I wanted to be concise and clear and I feel as though I did that. However, there is certainly room for improvement in my comments and I feel unsure whether or not I wrote enough feedback; I didn’t want to write too much because then it becomes a wall of text, I