Personal Rubric

This topic reminds me of one of my first days as a teacher. I kept hearing the word "rubric" and honestly had no idea what anyone was talking about. After a few days, I got up the courage to ask my team teacher what she meant when she said this new-fangled teaching term. Once explained to me, the rubric made perfect sense - I'd even seen one before as a student, though I remember it being called something else. Do my rubrics reflect my personal values - yes and no. MY rubrics reflect my personal values, some of the rubrics I use, do not. This reflects my job situation...I am a team teacher who is the 6th hire in about 6 years. There are lots of materials that existed before me that I am trying to rework in order to better reflect expectations that would be found in the industry. All of the rubrics that were in place when I came to teach consisted of a line item and then a numeric ranking from 0-5. This setup made the possible points for projects incredibly high and clouded the expectation. I have since changed all of my rubrics to a Yes (2 points), Partial (1 point), and No (0 points) format. This basically simplifies the project for the students and the rubric better serves as both an evaluation tool and a checklist. The great thing about teaching BVP is that video doesn't lie. It's either in focus, or not; properly exposed, or not; framed correctly, or not. The rubric that I've utilized does reflect my personal values in that I was an exacting shooter/editor who believed in a very small margin of error when I worked in the industry, but with the partial point, rewards effort for someone who is not as experienced in the field as I am. I am never happy with my rubrics and am constantly changing them - I've even gone so far as to have an upper level class help me design the rubric by which they were graded. I would like my rubrics to change as I learn more about teaching and to reflect my students' ability to continually exceed expectations.