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Tag: success criteria
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Pass ownership of how to make judgements to your learners and watch as they start seeing self-assessment as more powerful and more meaningful than ever before
Creating Success Criteria With Your Learners If learners understand what their work is being judged against, they can target their efforts more effectively. This is because they know what they…
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Instantly simplify speaking and listening for your EAL learners with your own set of curated speaking and listening success criteria
‘Speaking and Listening Success Criteria’ EAL Strategy: Explanation and Rationale It can be hard to achieve success, although it is much harder if you do not know what criteria you…
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An often-overlooked relationship that draws together effective feedback and the opening up of success criteria
Success criteria are the things against which work is judged. If you hit the success criteria – or surpass them – fantastic. If you fall short, then you have something…
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The magical number you need to know if you want to help learners sustain their effort, even when the going gets tough
Working memory is limited. There is a consensus among psychologists that it is roughly limited to 7 pieces of information, plus or minus two. Working memory is what we use…