Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Open Skill vs Closed Skill success criteria
I have been reading Formative Assessment in Action By Shirley Clarke I found it interesting when reading about co-constructing success criteria with open and closed skills. When reflecting back to my target group of Year 8 boys I realised that they are confident in setting closed skilled success criteria. But still rely on support with open skills. This has made me aware of the power of good exemplars for the students to refer to with their success criteria when working with open skills. Alan Peat provides examples, teaching tips to help with co-constructing success criteria that I am finding useful at the moment.
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Kylie,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree GOOD exemplars are the key to developing success criteria, no matter what the context.
Recently I found myself realising that a lesson had fallen flat because I hadn't found descent exemplars/models for my children to work towards. With the sharing of resources and work these models are now much easier to find.
Hi Kylie,
ReplyDeleteI too am a fan of Shirley Clarke and love the layout of her books which provide the information in a very easy to digest way. However, the drawbacks of this (from experience of seeing formative assessment strategies implemented in classrooms) seems to be that people plough in and try to implement numerous strategies quickly with the result that they are done quite superficially. I came across a paper recently which really emphasised the need to set up the environment properly before these strategies could be implemented with any great effect.
Thanks for your link to Alan Peat's website, I tried to find some of the information about co-constructing success criteria but didn't have much luck, any chance you could post a link on here to the exact place you found it.
Thanks,
Sarah