Learning goals and success criteria are critical pieces of information students need to be successful learners. Students and teachers must hold a common understanding of what is to be learned, and what successful achievement looks like. With explicit goals and criteria, students have the beginnings of what they need to become independent, self-monitoring learners.

Learning Materials:

You may find that this organizer helps you focus your thoughts and ideas.

We will split into partners and watch brief videos on the following sub-topics (be prepared to share with the group):
1)  The Foundation of Assessment for Learning
2)  Developing Learning Goals
3)  Sharing and Clarifying Learning Goals
4)  Developing Success Criteria
5)  Helping Students Understand Criteria
6)  Co-Constructing Success Criteria

Other Sources:
The Obligatory Board Provided PowerPoint
Learning Goals and Success Criteria Slide Share
Ministry of Education Growing Success

Key Questions: 
1)  How does identifying, sharing, and clarifying learning goals and success criteria lead to a common understanding of what is being learned?
2)  How are learning goals and success criteria foundational to improved learning for students?
3)  What are the criteria for effective learning goals?
4)  How do incremental learning goals scaffold instruction for students?
5) Why is a common understanding of the learning essential to improved learning, student ownership of learning, and independent learning? 

Moving Forward:
With a colleague examine a unit of study that you teach.

1. Identify the long‐term learning goal(s) for this unit.
2. Identify the learning goals for each of the lessons.

 

"When we invest time up front to build the vision [of what students are to be learning], we gain it back later in increased student motivation and the resulting higher‐quality work." - Chappuis (2009). Seven strategies of assessment for learning.