Success Criteria
Something
that I also talked a lot about last week was “success criteria”. Does that ring a bell?
It means
making the learning intention for each class we teach SMART.
SPECIFIC,
MEASURABLE, ACHEIVABLE, RELEVANT AND TIME LIMITED.
How do we
ensure all these things?
First, share
the Learning objective of the lesson while giving them the bigger picture too (Don’t
keep it a secret) so for example:
Today” we
are going to learn a poem about some boats but the bigger picture is that we
are studying different forms of transport”.
Or “we are
going to make a business card for a Greek God of our choosing, while we are
studying the topic of Ancient Greece”.
For you the
teacher it’s absolutely clear (Well most of the time) why you’re doing this
activity, but for the students it may not be so obvious.
How can
children succeed if they don’t know what “Good “ looks
like? So our objectives have to be so
simple that every child in the class can achieve them.
But then, I
hear you ask, what happens to the extra bright ones? Don’t worry we have the solution.
We say for
example- Everyone will make a business card with
the name and address of a Greek god. You should add the name of the God’s company, and you could include an image. So you are actually
working at three different levels every day.
Children
must be shown models all the time of what we expect and know clearly what is - an
average, a good and a great. We have to
let them know how to get to the Great and also where they are while on that journey
to get there.
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