Year 1 and Year 2 News by Gabrielle Douglas

Feedback is our friend!

To continue their learning, students need to develop their capacity to take on board feedback. In our classrooms, one of the ways we teach students about feedback is by using the Learning Star Scales.

During the learning process, the Year 1 and 2 students have been becoming familiar with the star scales for that learning goal for example, the writing scale or the number learning goal scale. Each lesson the teachers refer to the success criteria on this scale and the students measure the success in their learning against this criteria. The teachers have been working hard to provide feedback for their students against the criteria and teaching them to understand and use this feedback to improve. Students receive feedback from their teacher, their peers and they also are encouraged to self-assess their work against the success criteria during the learning process and of course during the assessment process. Our early year’s students are getting very good at receiving feedback and many have developed their skills in using it to improve their work and to understand their next steps for learning. See the students below using the start scales to receive feedback.

Have a great week
Gabrielle 
gdoug7@eq.edu.au