What would I do differently...

I find myself asking this question after each and every school day. I use this reflective questioning with the intention on improving what I have already done. Unfortunately, I rarely take the time to write down my thoughts and therefore tend to never apply such application. This past week (well, the week before) I really felt that I could improve on the rubric that I distributed to my class correlating to their 9/11 victim project. I became frustrated with the lack of understanding by my students, when in fact it was my own failure of clarification that caused so many questions. The student projects were also not to my level of expectation due to my vague rubric. I have found that the more specific my rubric is, the less questions I receive from my students and the better quality of work is displayed. Considering my rubric for this particular project was very broad, there was too much room for interpretation. I will now have to go back and actually correct the rubric- that's where I sometimes lack follow through. All these great ideas disrupted by scatterbrain. :)