I have just started a new topic with my Year 10 class (13 very low level learners).  As part of my goal to get them to think more about their own learning, we first evaluated the work they had completed on the introductory topic.  They had to write about one thing they felt they did well and one thing they felt they could have improved upon.  This will help us set a goal for the next unit, which is a novel study.

The students have also been recently asTTle and PAT tested and it is my plan to use these results to inform my teaching.  I also want the students to see the areas in these tests in which they performed well and to see where their gaps are.  I hope this, too, will help them set an appropriate goal and work to achieve it.

My wonderful neighbour over the road is an ex-Primary School Principal.  He has developed a computer programme where individualised success criteria and/or goals can be printed out on stickers so that when students achieve the things they have set out to achieve, they can identify these things in their work and label them with their stickers.

So there's a lot for me to be getting on with.  I need to closely look at the comments the students wrote today about what they felt they could have done better in the previous unit.  I need to closely analyse their PAT and asTTle data and then together we need to set individual goals for this next unit of work.  I am hoping that with these individual goals, students will engage with the work and learn to be reflective about their own learning!

Ms B