Student Voice and adaptations

What my children are telling me....

After talking with my students in my hub, I am making some changes from the student's voice.

When asked about the clarity of the learning, it is evident that we are missing many things so I am making changes to what we are doing.

The change I have made to our Hub practice is the following:
Our success criteria are now simpler.  No words, just visuals which the students know.

Generic Success criteria

• Personal flag goals have had a change. 
• Focus on one element so we are able to teach what this means and this is will be the learning intention for a while.

Purpose

I think we need to be more explicit. They are writers and they are writing for any audience. How do I do this?

Introduce authors, bring into reading

Is it a good idea to use journals that kids have written themselves as exemplars as well as authors around the room on display e.g Maragert Mahy???

Teacher modeling the language.

 "How will I know I am successful today?"

  "Of course, I will check the success criteria!!"

It is all in the explicit teaching. Pass on to the team and check? model consistency!!.

What next

Use kids exemplars and publish with writing display and use 'skill' time that I  have now incorporated into our weekly plan to unpack LI's from our progressions.

What am I learning?
Why am I learning ....?
How do I know I've learned it?