This fall, a school-wide committee comprised of teachers, specialists, and administrators worked to research best practice for using learning objectives and success criteria in our teaching. The group explored these resources, engaged in discussion and debate about what this would look like "in the wild." Keeping in mind the diversity of developmental ages, cultural backgrounds (of learners and teachers), programme philosophies, represented at our school, and indeed the context and type of learning experience itself, we avoided creating a cut-and-dry formula for using and communicating learning objectives and success criteria to students.
Instead, we worked to craft principles and components that will function as a guide as our school sections (British, Elementary, Middle, High) as we strive towards teaching and learning excellence at Seoul Foreign School.
We also gathered video clips of teachers in their classrooms, showing the variety of ways they communicate learning objectives and success criteria to their students, including the co-construction of LOs and SC to promote agency in our students.
Members of the LO and SC committee presented at a school-wide faculty meeting in early January, passing the torch to the separate sections to make the principles and components alive in their schools.
