Students are able to:

• Be their own teacher

• Articulate what they are learning and why

• Initiate and engage in effective dialogue and feedback

• Talk about how they are learning – the strategies they are using to learn

• Articulate their next learning steps

• Understand assessment tools used and what their results mean and can self-assess (assessment capable)

• Seeks opportunities and develops strategies to know what to do when they don’t know what to do

• Ask questions

• Respond to challenges using effective strategies

Teachers are able to:

• Build relationships with students – students know that they care.

• Engage in effective dialogue with students

• Develop a safe engaging classroom environment

• Be clear about learning progressions

• Use strategies to allow accelerated learning to occur

• Provide challenging learning for students

• Set high achievable expectations for learning

• Use a wide range of instructional strategies

• Be an activator rather than a facilitator

• Be highly effective practitioners of student learning

• Know how to accelerate learning.