1. We will be really unhappy with the outcome
if our learners:
We will be satisfied with the outcome
if our learners:
We will be very pleased with the outcome
if our learners:
• rarely engage and challenge themselves
• show little interest in their learning
• are seldom proactive and wait to be told what to do
• are more interested in having the right answer than in
understanding how they get to it.
• pay more attention and start to ask questions about
what they are learning
• show interest in finding out about new things
• initiate simple research for themselves
• show that they are willing to take risks in their
thinking and get things ‘wrong’ sometimes
• don’t always come up with the same answers and use
the same approaches as their friends
• talk about why they have worked in a certain way.
• make suggestions and share their own thoughts and
ideas
• identify reasons for finding out information and
initiate research for themselves and others
• recognise and question apparent contradictions
• ask ‘why’?
• link different areas of knowledge
• are able to research on their own and with others,
questioning sources of information for validity and
reliability
• reflect on what and how they have learnt.
HOW will you know when you are achieving your aims?
Goals for enquiring minds and independent thinking
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