1. Revisit Learning intentions
What are the challenges for you?
What is the value of using learning intentions?

2. and a review of learning intentions
Success Criteria
and a review of learning intentions

3. Learning Intentions Review purpose of learning intentions
Understand purpose of success criteria
Practice writing success criteria

4. ….. Learning Intention Research tells us
Students need to know what skills, knowledge
or understanding they are expected to learn, so
they can improve their performance.
….. Learning Intention

5. Research also tells us ….
Students need to be told how they will be assessed, so that they can judge for themselves whether or not they have learned what they were expected to.
…… Success Criteria
“If you don’t have success criteria then it’s kind of like going for your licence without knowing what the examiner will be looking for” (Student, 16)

6. Learning Intentions Understand purpose of success criteria
Review purpose of learning intentions
Understand purpose of success criteria
Practice writing success criteria

7. Success Criteria Why share success criteria? What do they look like?
What are process and performance criteria?

8. An example
A series of dot points might be used to list the success criteria for solving a maths problem.
For example,
You will-
provide a written summary of the problem in your own words
use an appropriate strategy.
explain the process used or the working out
have an accurate answer, which uses correct terminology
provide evidence of having checked the answer

10. Why are success criteria important?
Improve understanding
Gives the students a platform to judge their performance
Encourage independent learning
Enable accurate feedback

11. Why share success criteria?
It’s simple …..
If you don’t know the expectations
How can you know if you are successful
How can your teacher know if you are successful
It is not enough for the teacher to know what they are looking for – the student has to know also.

12. Effective Success Criteria
are linked to the learning intention;
are specific to an activity;
are discussed and agreed with pupils prior to undertaking the activity;
provide a scaffold and focus for pupils while engaged in the activity; and
are used as the basis for feedback and
peer-/self-assessment.

13. Effective Success Criteria
We are learning to…
present an argument.
calculate the passing of time in 5-minute intervals.
Remember to…
include opening and closing statements
give reasons for and against
use evidence to support
use language to persuade
count from the minute hand
stop where the minute hand finishes
count in fives
go clockwise

14. What do they look like? PROCESS CRITERIA PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
Depending on the purpose and the assessment activity, different kinds of success criteria may be used.
PROCESS CRITERIA
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

15. Process Criteria
Spell out a series of steps that the student needs to work through in order to complete the task.
Don’t address the issue of quality

16. TASK : Write an information report about kangaroos
You will be able to write
An introduction that tells what kangaroos are,
A paragraph about where they are found
A paragraph about their physical characteristics,
A paragraph about what they eat
A conclusion that provides one extra piece of interesting information

17. Provides some kind of evaluation of the quality of the student work.
Performance Criteria
Provides some kind of evaluation of the quality of the student work.

18. TASK : Write an information report about kangaroos
You will be able to:
Structure your information report (introduction, paragraph, conclusion)
Provide accurate information about location, physical characteristics and diet
Check for accurate spelling, punctuation and sentnece structure

19. Learning Intention and Success Criteria
We are learning to order 3 digit whole numbers
I can put 3 digit numbers in order from lowest to highest
I can explain my thinking (why the numbers are in this order)
We are learning to write a letter
I start my letter with the greeting; Dear …….
I leave a line after the greeting
I finish my letter with a salutation; from ……

20. Learning Intentions Practice writing success criteria
Review purpose of learning intentions
Understand purpose of success criteria
Practice writing success criteria

21. Your turn Work with your team to practice Success Criteria
It could be for something you have already taught or for something you are going to teach this week.
What is/was your learning intention?
How will you know your students have achieved this learning?

22. Traps ….
Do your success criteria refer to the specific skills, knowledge and understanding that you wanted the students to learn.
Do they refer to all of these?
Do they refer to extra skills, knowledge, understandings not in the learning intention?
Does the activity provide the opportunity for students to demonstrate all the success criteria?
Does your share/reflection time link back to your learning intention and success criteria?

23. In summary….
To take more responsibility for their own learning, pupils need to know:
what they are going to learn;
how they will recognise when they have succeeded; and
why they should learn it in the first place.

24. In summary … This isn’t all new
Using Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
creates more self-motivated pupils;
gives students the language to articulate their learning
empowers pupils to become independent learners;
improves understanding; and
can help focus feedback.
This isn’t all new
We do this anyway but we are being very specific about our expectations to the students

25. What about rubrics? Assessment for Learning
Visit the Professional Learning section

26. Your takeaway
What is something you will takeaway from tonight’s Professional Learning session?