Week 5 welcomed our annual Learning Celebrations. We are so grateful for this home school opportunity where students can really shine. By now students are well and truly thriving in their own individual ways. They prepare samples of work that they can talk to in some detail, related to their individual goals and aspirations. Yes, even little mistakes are included because we know this is an important part of our learning. When we reflected with students they were able to talk in depth about their learning. Writing was one of the curriculum areas we reflected on.
Goal setting and feedback is such an important skill for both teacher and students.
This year Teachers have been looking into the research from Helen Walls as part on ongoing writing PLD. Her work talks about the importance of goal setting and feedback and how these develop metacognition. They help students develop the knowledge of oneself as a learner and the strategies to manage a thinking task. Teachers are continuing to be really explicit about a single deliberate learning goal, providing targeted feedback for each student on that one aspect of their writing that will propel them forward tomorrow. Writing goals in particular are referred to as micro goals. You will be seeing and hearing about this in your child's learning celebration. You will see little visuals on their writing samples and these are usually in green.
There is so much to think about as part of the writing process !
To guide our learning celebrations we prepared some prompts or questions to get our students thinking about their aspirations and their whole experience at school. We know that so much happens during the day, socially, emotionally and academically. We aimed to come up with questions or prompts that might give you a different insight into your child's day. They also have a focus on embracing challenges, being OK with mistakes and applying GRIT and a Growth Mindset. We also wanted to make sure that our students could celebrate their progress and learning.
Here are the prompts we have been using:
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