EMPOWERING LEARNERS
You’ve heard the phrase making thinking visible. Observing, listening to and conversing with students about their meaning-making is essential. But, in order to do this effectively, what needs to be in place?
It’s tempting to pick an expectation and to ‘turn it into a learning goal’. However, if we’re going to invite students to be active in their learning (to own it!), we need to go beyond telling them what the goal of ‘today’s lesson’ is.
Together with learning goals, success criteria form the foundation for all other assessment practices.
In your classroom, do students know what they are trying to achieve, both in terms of the big picture and the details?
