Measures of Dispersion and Variability: Range, QD, AD and SD
Sharing success criteria for language tutorial
1. Sharing success
criteria for
language skills
Speaking, listening, reading and writing across the range
of abilities including enrichment for Gifted and Talented
2. Clear goals
Essential awareness of success criteria
Transparency of expectations enables good progress
Effective communication of expectations
Providing the opportunities for gifted and talented to
excel
Language is the key!
3. To know how…
…to embed literacy focus in your lesson
Multiple objectives
e.g. To understand/describe the effects of the Gunpowder Plot
To explain the aims of the plotters.
To evaluate/analyse the historical interpretation of the Gunpowder
Plot.
Pitching at the right level
Emphasising and explaining the meaning of the vocabulary in a lesson
objective
Checking understanding of expectations
Challenging students and encouraging independence/extension tasks
for Gifted and Talented
4. Success criteria for
language:
Reading
Skimming and
scanning
Fact and opinion, Fact and
fiction
Inference, deduction
Synthesize information
Evaluate
Decoding, reading comprehension
(identifying what is important in the text; process of organizing, recalling, and recreating the
information and fitting it in with what is already known, determining what is useful for an
individual purpose)
(judging against given criteria)
(guessing, making judgments based on given information)
(identifying relevant information)
(knowing the difference between fact, opinion, fiction and belief)
(accessing written information, understanding information)
5. Success criteria for
language:
Speaking and listening
Ask questions for information
(what, who, where, when)
Listen for specific purpose
Built on response of others
Justify and defend opinions
(make predictions, propose solutions, create, solve lifelike
problems, speculate, construct, devise, synthesize, develop/judge
ideas, problems solutions, express opinions, and make choices and
Ask different sorts of questions to extend
thinking, discuss ideas
(Why, how and in what ways)
6. Success criteria for
language:
writing
Vocabulary choices
Sentence types
Punctuation for effect
Paragraphing and
cohesion
Engaging and interesting; Constructing Analysis
and arguments/different audiences/purposes
Spelling, basic punctuation
8. Literacy Tools in every day
teaching/learning practice
Literacy Mats
Topic related writing mats consisting of the success
criteria, level indicators, literacy tips
(PEE, punctuation, connectives, sentence
openers, etc.), subject related
vocabulary, definitions, images, diagrams, etc…
Green pen linked to whatever the literacy objective is
(make the literacy focus explicit to students, e.g.
punctuation for effect, paragraphing, etc.)
Self-editing/peer-editing
Focus on vocabulary
e.g. Topic related glossaries
skill/word of the week in the bulletin, etc.
9. Summary: Uniform
approach to language and
literacy
Effective lesson planning; trying to incorporate literacy
objectives into the lesson objectives
Following universal success criteria for language
Consistent use of literacy tools
10. …when planning consider:
Basic Order Learning: KNOWLEDGE
If your lesson is pitched at NC Level 2/3 then lower order-thinking
tasks are required. Trigger words/activities:
identify, label, list, retell.
Basic Order Learning:
UNDERSTANDING/COMPREHENSION
If your lesson is pitched at NC Level 4 then lower order-thinking
tasks are required. Trigger words/activities:
compare, contrast, estimate, explain.
Middle Order Learning: APPLICATION
If your lesson is pitched at NC Level 5 then middle order-thinking
tasks are required. Trigger words/activities:
solve, predict, demonstrate, relate.
11. Middle Order Learning: ANALYSIS
If your lesson is pitched at NC Level 5/6 then middle
order-thinking tasks are required. Trigger words/activities:
differentiate, categorise, speculate, outline.
Higher Order Learning: SYNTHESIS
If your lesson is pitched at NC Level 6/7 then higher
order-thinking tasks are required. Trigger words/activities:
construct, build, create, summarise, design.
Higher Order Learning: EVALUATION
If your lesson is pitched at NC Level 7+ then higher order-
thinking tasks are required. Trigger words/activities:
judge, justify, conclude, criticise, assess.
Notas del editor
Children's progress is accelerated when they are clear about the success criteria for the intended outcomes, are able to judge the quality of their work and know how to improve it.This requires teachers having a good understanding of progression in the key concepts and skills in their subject. Language and Literacy links to all aspects of teaching and learning, therefore good language and literacy skills are essential to be able to achieve success in all subject areas.
glossaries in students book-keeping track of new words and definitions, vocabulary bingo-matching terminology with definitions, wordwalls, Encouraging students to read over their work