Write the rubric before the assignment
Lesson 4 of 6 · Planning
1 · Learn the move · Flipped interaction
Most rubrics are written after the assignment, from the work that came in, which is why they reward whatever the best student happened to do. Flip it: have the model interview you before it writes anything. What does mastery of this standard look like in a piece of work from this grade? What is the one thing a student must do to pass the row? What is the thing students do that looks like mastery and is not? Three or four questions, answered in your words, and then a rubric whose rows come from your answers and whose bands quote the behaviors, not adjectives. Then write the assignment to the rubric. The grade each piece of work earns later is a decision you make with the rubric open; the rubric is what makes the decision yours rather than your mood's.
I am about to write an assignment for this standard: [paste]. Before you draft a rubric, interview me. Ask me, one at a time, what mastery looks like in work from this grade, what a student must do to pass each row, and what looks like mastery but is not. Wait for each answer. Then write a four-row rubric whose bands describe observable behaviors in the work, with no adjective that could not be checked against the page. Do not write the assignment yet; I will write it to the rubric.
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
A Ridgeway High history teacher has a document-analysis assignment to set. The model asks her what mastery looks like, and she says 'they use the source to answer the question instead of summarizing it'. It asks what passes the row, and she says 'at least one line from the source connected to the question in the same sentence'. It asks what looks like mastery and is not, and she says 'a long quotation with the question restated after it'. The rubric that comes back has a row called Use of the source whose bands are those three sentences. The assignment she writes afterward tells students exactly that.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.