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At the Heart of Student-Centered Learning...

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At the Heart of Student-Centered Learning...

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is meeting the learner where they are at and fostering continued growth

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-Emphasizes the uniqueness and importance of each individual student

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Great Idea for KG and Early Years: Bringing Home into the Classroom

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Great Idea for KG and Early Years: Bringing Home into the Classroom

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-Parents write a wish for their child on the stone
-Older years can incorporate this idea too
-During PTC have a jar where parents can write one wish for their child for the school year
-Allows for effective collaboration b/w parents and teachers

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1. Tuning In
2. Finding Out
3. Sorting Out
4. Going Further
5. Making Conclusions and Taking Action

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-Developing responsibility

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-Promotes a calming environment

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-Promotes a calming environment

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-Evidence can be seen and understood
-Learner friendly language
-Co-constructed with learners
-Road map to achieving the learning intention

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What Are the Benefits to Learners (/w Clear Learning intentions, Success Criteria, and Intentionally Designed Workspaces)

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What Are the Benefits to Learners (/w Clear Learning intentions, Success Criteria, and Intentionally Designed Workspaces)

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-Learners are more focussed and interested
-Promotes healthy self-esteem
-Learners are given the language and vocabulary to discuss their learning
-Relationships between educators and learners tend to be more positive
-Promotes collaboration

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-Need to be designed with purpose
- Display trust and respect for the learner
-Reflect real life experiences
-Celebrate and invite learning (show student work)
- Making thinking visible to those in our community
- Have the power to invite, inform, intrigue, challenge, and promote reflection (for example: Wondering wall)
-Vary across age groups and schools

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-The learning becomes more explicit
-Future learning is scaffolded
-Encourages independent learning
-Enables accurate and fair feedback

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Success criteria and rubrics | Assessment for Learning

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This Professional Learning module explains the role played by success criteria (criteria for assessment) and explores rubrics as one example of success criteria.

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How Will We Know When We Are Clear About Our Learning Intentions?

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How Will We Know When We Are Clear About Our Learning Intentions?

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-They are embedded in our planning
-They are shared with students and written from their perspective (We are learning to...) ("I Can" statements)
-They can be developed with students orally, visually, or in writing
-Collaborate with students

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-The learning intention focusses on what students will learn, rather than what they will do
-Learner friendly language
-Specific, concrete, assessable

Think:
-What do I want students to know?
-What do I want students to understand?
-What do I want students to be able to do?

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Examples of learning intentions | Assessment for Learning

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A certain challenge exists for teachers in translating the knowledge, understanding and skills of a published curriculum into learning intentions whose language is accessible to their students, but time spent on this preliminary step is in itself excellent professional learning.

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-Knowing where learners need to go
-The importance of "tuning in": - building on where learners are in their learning (diagnostic assessments, class discussions, post-its etc)
-Setting the scene - why are we learning this?
-Explain the situation
-Linking to what is known (constructivism)
-Unfamiliar words and phrases are explained

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Other professional learning modules on this website explore the other Assessment for Learning strategies referred to in this diagram - success criteria, questioning, teacher and peer feedback and student self-assessment.

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Kath Murdoch "The Power of Inquiry" Book

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Kath Murdoch "The Power of Inquiry" Book

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You know you understand when...

-You can teach someone else about it
-You can explain it in a different way
-You can give lots of examples
-You know what it is as well as what it isn't
-You know how other people think about it
-You know when there is an error in an example
-You can make connections between it and other things
-You know what you still have to learn