Each One Teach One: Reciprocal Teaching Project

PARTNER PRESENTATION RUBRIC

CATEGORY

EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS A

Activity asks participants

to use their historical
thinking skills to gain
historical knowledge in an
20 points
engaging and meaningful
way.1
Participants engage with
Use of Primary &
primary and secondary
Secondary Sources
sources during the activity
in a creative and
interactive way. Presenters
Use of Historical
Thinking Skills

20 points
Alignment to Common
Core Standards
10 points
Teamwork

demonstrate a strong
knowledge of the difference
between the two types of
sources

Activity is directly aligned

to more than one of the
common core standards
for social studies2.

Partners lead the activity

simultaneously and their
equal contribution in
10 points
preparing the project is
evident and clear.

Total ___ / 60 points

MEETS EXPECTATIONS B

BELOW EXPECTATIONS C

NEEDS IMPROVEMENT F

Activity asks participants

to use their historical
thinking skills to gain
some historical
knowledge. Activity is
interesting and thoughtful.
Participants engage with
primary and/or secondary
sources during the activity
in a meaningful and
interactive way. Presenters

Activity asks participants

to use their historical
thinking skills to learn
about a historic time
period in a simplistic and
unchallenging way.
Participants engage with
historical sources during
the activity. It is unclear
whether the sources are
primary or secondary.

Historical thinking skills

are not present or not
discernable in the activity.
Historical knowledge
gained is vague or weak.

demonstrate some
knowledge of the difference
between the two types of
sources.

Presenters are unsure of the

difference between these two
types of sources.

Historical sources are

missing from the activity
or they are vague and/or
incomplete. Presenters
demonstrate a weak
understanding of primary
and secondary sources.

Activity is aligned to one

Activity is vaguely aligned
common core standard for to a common core
social studies.
standard for social studies
or alignment is weak.

Alignment to a common
core standard is difficult to
distinguish or not present.

Partners co-lead the

activity and it is clear that
both contributed to its
preparation in some way.

Only one partner leads the

activity; the other is silent.
It is clear that only one
person prepared the
activity.

One partner leads the

project more than the
other. It is clear that they
contributed unequally to
its preparation.
A: 60 54

B: 53 48

C: 47 42

F: 41 ! below
COMMENTS:

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See TLH Framework

See Common Core Standards: Grades 6 12 Social Studies

Each One Teach One: Reciprocal Teaching Project

PRESENTATION RUBRIC Individual Grade
CATEGORY

Individual
Contribution
20 points

Reflection
20 points

EXCEEDS
EXPECTATIONS A

MEETS
EXPECTATIONS B

BELOW
EXPECTATIONS C

NEEDS
IMPROVEMENT F

Each partner made

a significant
contribution to the
final presentation
as evident in the
Presenters
Reflection.
Explanation is
clear and concrete.
Reflection is
honest, thoughtful
and articulate.
Presenter provides
specific examples
and answers all
questions
completely.

Each partner
contributed to the
final presentation
as evident in the
Presenters
Reflection.
Explanation could
be more clear
and/or concrete.
Reflection is honest
and organized.
Examples could be
more specific
and/or some
answers are
incomplete.

One partner
contributed more
to this project than
the other as evident
in both Presenters
Reflections OR

One partner
carried the weight
of this project as
evident in both the
Presenters
Reflection and the
presentation itself.

Total ___ / 40 points

A: 40 36

Reflections
contradict each
other.

Reflection is
*complete.
Examples are
vague or lack detail
and/or several
answers are
incomplete.

B: 35 32

Reflection is
incomplete.
Examples are
difficult to
understand.
Answers to some
questions are
missing.

C: 31 28

F: 27 ! below

PRESENTERS REFLECTION
Write a one-page reflection that answers each of the following questions. Use specific examples
from your work to support your answers.
1. What is the most significant contribution you made to this project? Describe in detail.
2. What is the most significant contribution your partner made to this project? Be specific.
3. How did you and your partner divide up the work? In other words, what criteria did you
use to decide who would complete which part of the project?
4. What are you most proud of about your work on this project?
5. Looking back, what is one thing you would have liked to have done better, in either the
preparation or the presentation portion of this project?

Please email your completed reflection to your instructor no more than 48 hours after your
presentation. 10% will be deducted from your grade for this reflection for each day it is late.