This document discusses differentiation strategies for the classroom. It covers using learning intentions and success criteria, planning documents, and giving feedback. The teacher reflected on their current practice and how to improve differentiation through these three strategies. They explored using clear learning intentions and success criteria in planning and lessons. Planning documents were updated to include these, as well as extension activities and mixed ability groupings. The teacher also wanted to improve feedback by making it more effective and ensuring students act on the feedback. Their goal was to use feedback to help students meet learning intentions and success criteria.
2. START OF THE WEEK….
Questioned my current practice
How do I differentiate in my classroom?
Groupings
Planning
Questioning
Individual Learning Plans
Conferencing
How can I improve?
Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
Planning documents
Giving Feedback
4. LEARNING INTENTIONS & SUCCESS
CRITERIA
Readings
What skills, knowledge and understandings do students need?
Focusing on both context and learning
What do I want students to know?
What do I want students to understand?
What do I want students to be able to do?
The big picture….
Why are we learning this?
6. WHERE TO NEXT….
Having clear learning intentions and success criteria in
my planner for each activity
Having clear learning intentions and success criteria
located for students to refer to during the activity
Providing students with clear success criteria for each
task during my lessons
Continuing with professional readings
9. PLANNING DOCUMENTS
How has it changed?
Learning Intention & Success Criteria now listed
Extension activities for students who have
completed the task
Student groupings – mixed ability with students
listed in academic order allowing a CRT to be able
to pick up the planner and understand where kids
sit.
During ‘share time’ students are not just sharing
what they have done, they are addressing whether
or not they have met the success criteria for that
lesson.
10. GIVING FEEDBACK
What is happening at the moment….
A brief comment is given to the students on the work they have completed
and sometimes if time doesn’t allow, a students work not receive any
feedback.
Feedback has been given to students and they have not acted upon it,
therefore there is no impact on the students’ learning.
What I am working towards…
Students and teacher giving effective feedback to students to enable they
have met the learning intention and success criteria.
To develop skills in giving students better quality feedback on their learning.
For students to be focused on improving their work through the feedback
comments
11. GIVING FEEDBACK…
When to give effective feedback…
While students are working on a task
While students are presenting
At the end of a task
How am I going to achieve this?
A greater awareness of the feedback I provide
to my students
Using Posterous to reflect on student learning
and provide students and parents with
feedback on how their child is going.
Using the Ultranet – Writing Space: effective
having all students using the space to upload
their writing ideas and providing effective
feedback relating to success criteria and
learning intentions.
12. WHERE TO NEXT?
Sharing with staff at Bellbrae Primary School my understandings
about differentiation from this week.
Completing the Task Interrogation activity at a PLT session with a
teachers.
Fine-tuning my reading and numeracy planners to reflect
differentiation in my classroom.
13. ‘In a differentiated classroom, the
teacher facilitates student
learning to ensure the best
outcome for all students.’
Louise Kahle
(2012)
Editor's Notes
During our planning meeting we completed a task interrogation based on our ICT task for our writing program. Very interesting task – allowed us to see exactly what the students needed to know for them to achieve success.Also allowed use to differentiate by providing extension activities for students that complete to work.
Previously I just had my groups listed and the tasks for that week with no consideration of the learning intention, success criteria and extension activities. I have just worked on my writing planner for this week.
Previously I just had my groups listed and the tasks for that week.