Success Criteria

Success criteria must be specific to the learning target, understandable, and visible. It must answer question how will I know I hit my learning target?

Remember..there are many ways to show success criteria! (I can..., We can..., Single Point Rubrics, Holistic Rubrics, Modeling, Exemplars)

My favorite part about getting ready for back to school is getting all of the bulletin boards set up around my classroom. Here are some of my favorite ideas.

Learning intentions and success criteria made easy!

Today I wanted to focus on learning goals and success criteria and how they are the center of your inquiry teaching practice. I talked about a lot of things today on my broadcast, and wanted to share my notes with you as well as some pictures of how these look in my classroom. Check out

Learn how to co-construct success criteria in this handy post that outlines some handy teaching strategies to support success criteria in the

It is important to explicitly tell the students WHAT they will be learning, HOW they will be successful in mastering that skill and WHY it is an important skill to learn. This is where learning targets and success criteria come in to play.

Self-assessment has a .75 effect size, which means almost two years of growth in one year's time. Self-assessment gets students independent and reflective.

Learning Intention and Success Criteria boxes More

Reading comprehension in Grades 4 - 8 is supported in the classroom many ways. One strategy is to use your classroom walls effectively by explicitly posting and linking success criteria, learning goals and anchor charts. By posting and linking all of these supports, children understand what they are learning, why they are learning and how be successful at what they are learning. 1. Begin by conducting reading comprehension diagnostic assessments. Share the results of the assessments (names…