What is meant by Benchmarks and Rubrics?
Based on new requirements by the Arizona State Board of Education, all teacher candidates (i.e., COE students who are in teacher education programs) will have to demonstrate competency with essential knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are based on the Arizona Professional Teaching Standards (APTS). Therefore, certain critical assignments in each course will be developed as “benchmarks” that serve as checkpoints of student competencies. Some of the benchmarks will be practicum-based and others will not. A rubric for each benchmark will be developed and made available in each course so that students and instructors will know the pre-outlined levels of competency performances for the benchmark assignments. • How will I find out more about these improvements in the College of Education programs? The College of Education will offer several opportunities for you to learn about these new exciting improvements. We strongly encourage you to take advantage of these so that you can learn th
