Now they need to regularly reflect on those goals, in the blog, to help them achieve their goals

Our students have the

SMART goal template in a

wiki

Lets watch a quick tutorial about how to use a blog

I came across this on the ultranet support site, a cool module that has key questions students could use when they are reflecting on their goals.

Why reinvent the wheel!! I think we should use these questions. And any others that we can add that will

help our students.

Back at the PLT meeting

• How could you use this learning in different ways?

• How have your ideas changed?

• Two things I have learned...and one thing I still wonder about?

• What did this make you think about or wonder?

Some questions to prompt reflection

How could you do this differently next time?

• What did you learn that you didn't know before?

Lets save time and pool all our strategies. That will improve our students abilities to reflect on their goals. And save us all planning time!!

Graphic organisers

Concept maps

Sentence stems

rubrics

Pooling all our strategies Strengthening student

reflection skills

O.K what makes a

good reflection? Lets have a

go

This will help us see the problems

students might have

GOAL “I am going to finish my homework by 8pm tonight and I’ll achieve this deadline by spending half an hour on each subject.”

Draft one: I achieved my goal

Draft two: I learnt that half an hour was enough time but finding a good place to work on my homework also helped me to finish it quicker.

Draft three: I need to have a look at my whole week, after school activities to plan the best nights to complete my homework so that I don’t run out of time to complete it.

We’ve got one…it took a few drafts…

GOAL “I want to write a letter to the Shepparton News on the issue ‘What can the Government do about Victoria’s water problem?’ that is a page in length and completed by June 28th. I’ll write at least one argument every night, cross checking with the Persuasive Text guide.”

Draft one: I used the guide to keep me on track, it gave me a chance to check my work to see if I was on the right track, rather than wait until the end and having to start again.

Draft two: Having the guide, breaking the letter down into smaller parts or arguments, made it easier to develop each argument separately until I was satisfied it gave a strong message. This was easier than trying to do it all in one night

Got it! It took two

drafts…

There is more info on Learning Goals

reflections in the Online Support Module 9 in the

Ultranet support site

I’ve got a few ideas to pursue using web 2.0 tools that we can explore, like vokis

After a while I’ve noticed some of my kids get bored with writing a journal.

How do we make reflections more interesting by giving students more choices?