2. Teacher Inquiry Focus
Students developing Success Criteria
Justification:
• Observation about student learning behaviour
• Need for secondary school
• Making tasks manageable
• Measuring success
Target Group
Year 8 Boys
Justification for Target Group
• Thought they knew and what they could do
• Ability to create next steps
• Manageability of breaking learning down
• Using exemplars to help
6. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2010
I then gave them a task as follows:
Write the success criteria for an argument to encourage the
Government to make Cellphone usage free.
Here is an example of the success criteria I was given:
Success Criteria for free internet:
• Write a good argument to why the government should let the
internet to be free.
• How would it affect other people worldwide?
• How would the people who had internet and was paying it feel if
the internet was now free would they ask for their money back.
• Give a variety of question’s why it should be free.
7. S.C for iPods at school
Introduction-State your point of view are you for or
against the argument, Main Ideas
Body- Different reason for each paragraph, Why is it
important
Conclusion-Restate your point of view/side of the fence
Should iPods be on the stationary list SC:
Introduction
State point of view-iPods shouldn’t be on the stationary list
Say main points-Distraction, Inappropriate content
Body
Distraction-stops work from being done
Inappropriate content-might have inappropriate songs/videos
Conclusion
Recap main points- Distraction, Inappropriate content
Restate point of view- iPods should not be on the stationary list
November
8. Changes in Teaching Practice
• Think, Pair Share before coming into classroom discussion
• Explicit Teaching of smaller concepts
• Explicit Models
• Using the language
Next Steps:
• Infuse in all learning areas
• Breaking down of the Matrix for students
• Effective feedback from Teacher to Students and Student
to student
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