Why is LI and SC our focus?
❏Keep children focused and involved
❏Children can determine their own success
❏They can support and enhance the conversations we have with each other and with ourselves in our heads on a daily basis
❏To build on existing understanding and reflect on current practice
❏Inspection ‘Senior leaders and staff should improve consistency across the school in effective learning, teaching and assessment. In particular, teachers should identify how they will assess children’s progress and achievement, using national benchmarks.’
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This quotation from Building the Curriculum 5 outlines:
•the process of sharing Learning Intentions and Success Criteria in order to allow learners to see what success looks like
•the need to allow learners the opportunity to develop the understanding and skills needed to help devise the Success Criteria
•Learning intention should be focused on what the learner should know, understand or be able to do
•Should be clear and make sense to learners – as straight forward as possible
•Standards and wording taken from bundle of Es and Os
•Should focus on further practice of previous learning or moving to new learning
• identify Learning Intentions from the bundle of Experiences and Outcomes
• clarity and involvement of the learner
• Sharing throughout lessons is very important – helping learner make the links between what they are doing and what they are learning
• link with assessment – assessment being integral part of learning and teaching
Is it knowledge or understanding? Mastering content so you not only know it but understand it?
Is it the ability to use knowledge and understanding to think, reason, work things out and to solve problems for themselves? ־
Is it performance skills such as the ability to count accurately, to conduct an experiment, to play an instrument, read aloud, speak in another language, play a sport or be a good team member? ־
Is it the ability to create quality products such as a poem, a cake, an artwork, a PowerPoint presentation or a piece of furniture?
Is it about developing attitudes and dispositions? Being self-aware? Developing an empathy with other people? Realising what motivates you? What you believe in?
Group Task Guide
How would you improve the Learning Intentions?
Individually write your improved Learning Intention down.
Share and compare these with your colleagues.
Were you thinking along the same lines?
The SC here is linked to the LI. Handwriting, spelling and paragraphs in this case are not part of the LI but an expectation we should encourage. For example…
•The Success Criteria in the first column are clearly linked to the Learning Intention.
•The criteria in the second column might be expectations for all extended writing but are not directly linked to the Learning Intention (to write in persuasive language)
It repeats the LI, neat? Doesn’t specify how?
Doesn’t link to compound sentences, neat handwriting more of an ongoing aspect
•Remember to ensure the Learning Intention reflects the standards within the bundle of Es and Os
•Create relevant Success Criteria for the Learning Intentions you have identified – these outline what you expect learners to do to demonstrate that they have been successful in their learning
•Practitioners will have these Success Criteria in mind if and when they come to co-constructing Success Criteria with the learners