A student creating her own success criteria in her independent book

I discovered a studious child in my class who created their own success criteria chart in their independent writing book ... so cute...I was blown away she was transferring what she does in her guided into her independent.  She highlighted her successes as well... so proud.

Student Led Conferences Term 2 Week 10

We had two afternoons of Student Led Conferences in week 10.  The students were in charge of showing their parents their learning. Each student really enjoyed showing their work to their parents.

There was a range of equipment out on the benches for students to demonstrate lessons to their parents.  The class had written a list of possible things to show their parents and they had made their own little plan of what they were going to demonstrate.

Some children showed their parents the karakia and himene, the weather in te reo Maori and English which are all part of a 'Helpers' job in the mornings.

Some children made their parents solve maths problems they created for them to do on the little white boards.

What's after Identifying your own Next Step - Recrafting

 

Using the Child's identified Next Steps to Re-craft their writing:

This child self assessed her writing by highlighting her successes within her story. She then set her Next Step which was to write a question. So instead of leaving it there she is now required to re-craft her writing by including her Next Step into her current story - by adding a question.

 

"Will I drown?"

Here is her question she inserted into her story after several minutes of rereading her story and looking at her picture plan, plus probing from the teacher to think how her characters are feeling at the beginning, middle and end of her story. What could your characters be thinking?

She had to put a degree of thought into this process and finally came up with her question.

 

Where to from here? / What next?

This is the first session of re-crafting I have done with this writing group.  I will definitely implement this into my programme as it seems to tidy up the Next Step process and the children can see a means to an end of why even identify their next step.