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“Like I’m ever gonna need to do this in the real world!” Boy, you’d love to show that kid in third period physics a thing or two.Time to reach for the Authentic Assessment Toolbox, a free online guide to “creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning.” You can download sample lessons and rubrics for most subjects at all K-12 levels. Toolbox creator Jon Mueller covers the What, Why, and most importantly How of creating assignments that harness more than students’ knowledge that “C” is the most likely answer on multiple choice tests.

So the next time a student whines about how useless an assignment is, you can say, “You’ll see how people use Newton’s laws of motion in tonight’s homework. Due tomorrow, smart guy.” –BILL FERRIS

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