Assignment 3: Annotated Bibliography Reflection

Putting the research and work into an annotated bibliography is almost as important as designing one. As a teacher, I cannot get carried away in expectations of what the students can do and what they will dedicate their time to do. Will they gain an educational experience out of this? Is this an opportunity to practice evaluating sources or just another mundane task to be completed for the teacher? Like all my assignments, it's important to keep the purpose behind the assignment in the front of their minds.



That is why I designed a rubric to go along with it. Rubrics do not lay out expectations. They lay out areas of emphasis that students can pick up on. There is a reason why I ask for the target audience of the article instead of how many pages it spans. Rubrics give students a list of information to spend their time looking for.

Lastly, it is good practice to have them cite sources using the MLA formatting in this type of assignemnt. Eventually they will come to memorize the order and format of citation information like I have as the years of formal education go by.