Teaching as Inquiry - Co-constructing WALTS and Success Criteria

My school is at present using 'Clarity in the Classroom' to help improve priority students achievement levels.  We were each observed and videoed taking a reading lesson.
After reflecting on my observation my goal is to improve the use of success criteria in reading and to also ask the students why we are  doing this?

Plan of Action:

• Ensure the success criteria is recorded on the task board.
• I will record the WALT, Why, and Success Criteria in a modelling book which will be opened on the table to prompt me to constantly refer to these at the beginning of the lesson, during the lesson if needed and at the end of the lesson as a recap.
• I will also use the modelling book to record new vocabulary, contractions, vowel blends and rules, punctuation, main points etc, which occur during the reading of text.

First week: "WHY"
My first focus will be on "Why we are doing this?" as my students struggled to explain this during my observation.

Reflection:
The groups answer to WHY is to move up a level but with some further questioning and prompting I can now write things like ... to understand the story.
This small group of girls wanted me to write their names beside the WALTS so we could see who it pertained to.  This blew me away as they were showing ownership of their learning intention.


 It didn't take long for them to click on why we choose to do certain learning intentions once I got my modelling book up and running and asked them WHY each reading session.  So they now longer say we are learning this WALT so we can move up a level, they now say ... to understand the story. The photo below has an example of the children's answer to WHY and the WALT and Success Criteria is co-constructed.



They are getting the hang of answering why. So now I will shift my focus onto letting them know their strengths and what they need to work on according to recent running record results. Their weaknesses will now become their learning intention.

10 June 2015
Each reading group can now co-construct their WALTs and Success Criteria and answer WHY.
I have in included another aspect into my inquiry, as this group "Penguins"  were left with  questions that weren't answered after predicting and discussing each picture. So we recorded them down and these questions became the focus when we read ... we wanted to find out the answers to these questions: