Model Schools

for Inner Cities

ER 12 Beginning Teachers Presentation - Learning Goals

and Success Criteria
By: Sophie Young and Janice Chisholm

Learning Goals

Learning Goals for Todays Session

To understand learning goals and success
criteria
To learn how to effectively develop
meaningful learning goals and success
criteria
To deconstruct our learning goals and
success criteria

The Context

Where are we now? Whats our baseline?

Lets take a look at some existing and
anonymous Learning Goals and Success Criteria
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?

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Learning Goals

Example 1

Learning Goals

Example 2

Learning Goals

Example 3

Learning Goals

Example 4

Learning Goals

We think learning goals are...

LG and SC within the Assessment Cycle

The Assessment Cycle

From: Student Success 2011 Summer Program Differentiated Instruction and

Assessment

Learning Task

Learning Task
Outlines that activity that the students will
be doing
It is linked to the learning goal and the
success criteria
It is not the learning goal but is connected
to the learning goal

Learning Task

Learning Task
Here is an example of a Learning Task:
Our school is retiling a rectangular area in the Kindergarten
classroom. The long side of the construction area will be 15 tiles
long and 8 tiles short for the short side. How many tiles will
they need in total?

Learning Goals

What is a Learning Goal?

Aligned with curriculum expectations

consult the curriculum documents
Student friendly language
Linked to the learning task

Growing Success

Learning Goals and Growing Success

Assessment for learning and as learning requires that students and
teachers share a common understanding of what is being
learned
Learning goals clearly identify what students are expected to
know and be able to do, in language that students can readily
understand
Teachers develop learning goals based on the curriculum
expectations and share them with students at or near the
beginning of a cycle of learning
Teachers and students come to a common understanding of the
learning goals through discussion and clarification during
instruction
-Growing Success Document, Chapter 4, page 33

LG at a glance

How to develop a Learning Goal?

Developing Effective Learning Goals

Developing Effective Learning Goals

Success Criteria and Growing Success

Success Criteria and Growing Success

Students and teachers must share a common
understanding of what constitutes success in
learning
Success criteria describe, in specific terms,
what successful attainment of the learning goals
looks like
Assessment and instruction is guided by the
achievement chart for the particular subject or
discipline
Growing Success Document, Chapter 4, page 33

Developing Success Criteria

Developing Success Criteria

Success Criteria

Success Criteria
Use clear language that is meaningful to the
students
Directly involve students in identifying,
clarifying, and applying those criteria in their
learning
Examine samples of student work together to
help students understand what constitutes
success and provides a basis for informed coconstruction of the success criteria
Growing Success Document, Chapter 4, page 33

Success Criteria

Success Criteria
The success criteria should be open to review and
revision, guided by the teachers professional
judgement, as students progress towards achievement
of the learning goals
Teachers can enhance their understanding of success
criteria and build common knowledge about levels of
achievement through teacher moderation
The success criteria are used to develop an
assessment tool, such as a checklist, a rubric, or an
exit card (i.e., a students self-assessment of learning)
Growing Success Document, Chapter 4, page 33

Learning Goals, Success Criteria and Action Words

From EduGains
http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/aer2/chapter3/
background/temptoolsback/actionverbs.html

Success Criteria

Achievement Chart links to Success Criteria

Courtesy FOS ER 12 and 13 Presentation

Working On It

Activity - Mathematics
Consider the following learning task for a grade
4 class:
Our school is retiling a rectangular area in the Kindergarten
classroom. The long side of the construction area will be 15 tiles
long and 8 tiles short for the short side. How many tiles will
they need in total?
Solve the problem above.
What could the learning goal be?
What could the success criteria be?

Math Learning Goal and Success Criteria

Learning Goal:
Success Criteria:

Success Criteria

Activity - Writing
Using the writing sample provided, work with a partner
to identify the potential Success Criteria that can be coconstructed with the students
Consider all four areas of the Achievement Chart
Select either the Grade 2 or Grade 6 expectations to
guide your thinking

Success Criteria

Break

Break

5-10 mins...

Working on our LG and SC

Analyzing our Learning Goals and Success

Criteria
Using the Learning Goal(s) and/or Success
Criteria you brought today:
Meet with colleagues from the same
teaching assignment
In small groups, take turns analyzing each
LG and SC
Use the Achievement Chart to determine
which categories the goals and success
criteria fall under (i.e., K, TH, Ap, C)

Consolidation

Lets share what we learned!

In conclusion

Final thoughts
After todays learning and discussions, as a new
teacher of TDSB, why do you think its
important to use Learning Goals and Success
Criteria in the classroom?

Thank you

Exit Tickets
Thank you
Contact information:
janice.chisholm@tdsb.on.ca @chisholmjanice
sophie.young@tdsb.on.ca @sophienyoung