Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Learning Goal for this Session

-learn the importance of Learning Goals amd Success Criteria in student achievement.

Success Criteria:

-Plan assesssment that is clearly linked to instruction

-Indentify and explain the core practices of assessment for learning

-Write learning goals and identify success criteria

Effective learning goals

brief

concise

student friendly language

describe what students will know or be able to do

based on expectations

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Samples

We are learning about inferring

I am learning to demonstrate the features of graphic text

I can explain the ways graphs support the mathematical equations.

Apply a variety of reading strategies

I can explain the strategies and steps used to improve persuasive writing.

We are learning to use clues in the text to know what the author is saying without writing it in words.

I can identify, explain and use the features of informational texts to construct meaning.

Success Criteria

use specific terms and language that is meaningful to students

what successful attainment of learning goals look like

provide student with tools to monitor learning and determine level of proficiency with respect to learning goal

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In the classroom, we foster student growth by clearly defining learning goals, scaffolding learning experiences, providing varied opportunities for practice and giving meaningful feedback. Growing Success, 2010

Learning Goal Example - ENG4U - Reading for Meaning

Expectation 1.5

extend understanding of texts, including complex

and challenging texts, by making rich and

increasingly insightful connections between

the ideas in them and personal knowledge,

experience, and insights; other texts; and the

world around them

Learning Goal

We are learning to use what we know and our experience with different texts and the world to help us understand what we are reading.

Success Criteria Example ENG4U - Reading for Meaning - Expectation 1.6

link it to what I knew before

talk about my own experiences

relate to something I have read

talk about others' experiences

When we invest time up front to build the vision of what the students are to learn, we gain it back later in increased student motivation and the resulting higher quality work. Chappuis, 2009

Peer and self assessment

How do learning goals and success criteria support self assessment?

How do learning goals and success criteria support peer assessment?

The five strategies, adapted from Black and Wiliam (p. 8), are:

• identifying and clarifying learning goals and success criteria;

• engineering effective classroom discussions and other learning tasks that elicit information

about student learning;

• providing feedback that helps learners move forward;

• through targeted instruction and guidance, engaging students as learning resources for one another;

• through targeted instruction and guidance, helping students understand what it means to “own” their own learning, and empowering them to do so.

Where am I going?

How am I going?

Where to next?