Success Criteria (.77) Knowledge of end points- how we know when we have arrived or met our goal. Understanding of how the teacher will judge student performance. Students should be actively involved in creating them with their teacher Effective Success Criteria motivate and challenge students Shasta County Office of Education

John Hattie’s research is based on over 1,000 meta-analyses, 50,000 studies and 260,000,000 students Purpose: to discover the most positive impacts on student achievement 2 minutes (8:27-8:29) As we consider what Common Core is asking students to be able to do, our team has heard teachers say “I just don’t have time for {and you can fill in the blank}.” In order for each of us to make the greatest use of the class time that we do have, our team has focused our sessions on the strategies within models of teaching and learning that bring about the greatest effect. The most prominent educational researcher on what impacts student achievement is John Hattie. John Hattie is Professor and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and deputy Director of the Science of Learning Research Center. Dr. Hattie spent over 30 years of researching before writing 3 books: Visible Learning – 2009 Visible Learning for Teachers – 2012 Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn – 2014 John Hattie’s research is based on … [see slide]

Success Criteria It should: Involve students in the process Be specific Be concrete Describe what success looks like when the learning goal is reached Be measureable Shasta County Office of Education

Examples of Success Criteria I can: analyze choices and predict consequences. identify costs and benefits of a choice. describe a region by its defining characteristics. check my prediction of the area by measuring and finding out if some of the shapes are bigger than others or if they take up the same amount of area Shasta County Office of Education

Common Core Depth of Knowledge Circle Shasta County Office of Education

Another example…

rubrics 6 Online Rubric Makers Worth Trying (article w/websites) http://www.edudemic.com/online-rubric-makers/ Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php Essay Tagger http://www.essaytagger.com/commoncore Elk Grove Unified School District Opinion, Fiction & Expository K-12 http://blogs.egusd.net/ccss/educators/ela/rubrics-k-12/

We’ll know we are succeeding… Shasta County Office of Education