"The worst learning scenario is to be unaware of expectations or how your work will be judged and to have o guideline about how to achieve the objective in the first place (Clarke, 2008, -.81). So many of our students feel like they are in this situation - that assessment happens to them, rather than it being a process they are an equal partner in. Co-constructing success criteria is "the practice of working with students to develop a shared understanding of what success looks like (Almarode & Vandas, 2018, p. 75). By having students co-construct success criteria, it allows them to think about their own learning and start a metacognitive process. Students can think through learning goals, review exemplars, and plan for the next steps in their personalized learning journey.
To the right are some tips we use when co-constructing success criteria with our class. Here are templates we have used with students:
Checklist Template (Google Slides)
Brainstorming Template (Jamboard)
