Author: apink

  • Students reflecting on Feedback

    For TLCP 2, we are working on Reading Expectations 1.7 (Analyzing) & 1.8 (Evaluating) and combining them to write about the Author’s Point of View. Students receive feedback for each of their pieces, but I also provide whole class feedback: Whole Class Feedback Notes The Success Criteria for the Author’s Point of View: Success Criteria…

  • Next Steps for Collaborative Inquiry

    Next Steps: 1.  Select 3 students from your class to monitor:  1 Level 3-4 student, 1 Level 2 student, 1 Level 1-2 student. keeptrack of the feedback they are provided and how they respond to it try various methods of providing feedback, track how you provided the feedback 2.  Small group conferencing:  guided conferencing with…

  • New Learning Reflection

    Various Methods of Providing Feedback: 1.  Conferencing: Works better with smaller classes you can follow-up with the feedback that you have provided the feedback is immediate you can pinpoint what they are understanding, and at what point they are in their learning can have student show you what they will do with the feedback you…

  • Student Led Interviews

    This week we had our interviews with parents. As a whole school, we did student-led interviews. In the grade 7/8 classes, we had students choose 2 literacy pieces to talk to their parents about. They chose 1 piece they were proud of, and talk about how the piece showed their use of the success criteria,…

  • Providing Feedback using Success Criteria

    For this Literacy unit, Ben and I had the students write a Relate/Reflect response every 2-3 days. This provided many opportunities for the students to receive feedback and apply the feedback to their next response. Here are some pictures of what that looked like:   We also worked on Writing in Role.  This is the…

  • Mini-Lessons on Success Criteria

    After our last meeting, we realized that our students were still really struggling with understanding how to use the success criteria to improve their work. As a result, we decided to teach mini-lessons about each success criteria, so that when we use the success criteria to provide feedback, the students would understand how to use…

  • Creating Success Criteria with Student Work

    The Learning Goals for our Literacy Unit: To create the success criteria, Ben and I put up some work samples from a previous year. We then asked the students to help me find what is good/strong about each piece, and what is missing or needed improvement in each piece. I usually start with a weaker…

  • Student Survey Results

    Student Survey Graph Click on the link above to view our survey results.

  • Reflection on Creating Success Criteria

    Peter, gr. 5/6:  Students wrote a paragraph (diagnostic) about a topic of their choice.  Then we did a few lessons that focused on writing an organized paragraph.  After that, we discussed what the success criteria should be for writing an organized paragraph.  We then used the success criteria to write a shared paragraph (as a…

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