An example of Self Evaluation in Year 5/6

Last week, I observed outstanding practice in Year 5/ 6 Literacy lessons.

I loved this strategy that Mr Malley was using to allow the children to evaluate what they had learnt.

He gave the children a "taster" of the lesson but did not tell them explicitly what the objective was going to be- this was withheld purposely. The children wrote on post its what they thought they were going to learn in the lesson. After delivering an excellent lesson on identifying features of biographies, he then asked the children to write on another different coloured post it note what they actually learnt. It was fascinating to see the children's responses which initially had been very varied but on completion of the lesson, had been largely the same. It goes to show that if teaching and learning is clear, appropriate and very well planned and delivered, the children will know what they have learnt without needing to be introduced to an objective at the start of the lesson. Children will reveal all so if the lesson had been confusing or limited learning had taken place, we would certainly have known about it through this process!