Students reflect on their SMART Goals in Blogs in Ultranet. Today we look at some examples of sentence stems which guide students through the reflection process. This session shows in detail how PLTs can work together effectively to have SMART Goals and Reflections available to students, teacher and parents 24/7.

1. title
Episode 5
Student Learning Goals
Reflection Part 2

2. Welcome to iMasterclass-Episode 5
Hume Region presents: Student Learning Goals - Reflections Part 2
Brendan OBrien, Gail Stanley and Libby Delbridge

3. Purpose of these Sessions
These online professional learning sessions will:
 Build a community of teacher/learners beyond your school
 Provide a framework for effective PLTs
 Develop an effective process for Student Goal Setting
 Provide confidence and skills in using Ultranet

4. The Learning Intention for today is......
How do my students reflect on their learning goals
The Success Criteria will include........
1. I will be able to explain how to support students to
reflect on their learning goals
2. I will learn how to model reflecting on goals
3. I will be able to understand how a PLT can effectively
plan to support students to reflect on their goals

5. In Episode 4 we learnt what are
reflections and why are they important
Reflections are self assessment…
“Effective assessment empowers students to ask
reflective questions and consider a range of strategies
for learning … Students, as active, engaged, and critical
assessors, can make sense of information, relate it to
prior knowledge, and master the skills involved …
Students are their own best assessors.”
Earl, L. M. (2003). Assessment As Learning: Using classroom assessment to maximize student
learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

6. Where are
we from?

7. POLL
As part of the series of sequential PL did you
participate in iMasterclasses Learning Goals –
Reflections part 1 last Thursday?
Did you know? That prior to this series on Reflections there were three
sequential episodes on Learning goal setting. You can watch the
recordings of these sessions and pick up all the resources from the
iMasterclasses Design Space

8. Setting learning goals is an
ongoing and cyclical journey

10. Reflections on goals
Core conversations about the progress to
achieve learning goals between student and
teacher
The teacher can support by asking students questions that will
• Probe student’s evidence of progress towards their goal –
data, work sample
• Investigate students thinking and opinion of their progress –
focus attention on students understanding of their own
strengths and areas for improvement
• Revisit student understanding of their current knowledge and
of what knowledge they need in order to improve

11. Metacognition is about:
• Being aware of what needs to be done and what options and choices
are available to do it
• Self-monitoring (or regulating) thoughts and actions to keep focused
on the goals and the best pathway to achieve them
• Self-evaluating progress and taking steps to change direction if
necessary. (Wilson 2000)
More examples of metacognitive questions:
– What are the steps I need to take?
– Are there two possible strategies I could try?
– Which is the best strategy to take?
– What should I focus on first?
– Am I concentrating on the right part?
– Is there a strategy I haven’t tried?
– What would improve my work?

12. Rubrics
• Deciding on rubrics or sets of easily understood criteria that describe
qualities of successful achievement and show progress towards achieving
personal learning goals. These rubrics or criteria can:
– help students picture the type of knowledge, skill and behaviour they need to
have developed
– help them to identify evidence
– keep track of their progress towards achieving their goals.
• Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
• Find rubric
• Keyword search eg. listening
• Search found: Attentive listening in the upper grades by
Author: Ms. Greenwald Date Created: February 24, 2010
which was then saved and personalised

13. Eg. Rubric: Attentive listening in the upper grades http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
Author: Ms.
Greenwald
Date created:
February 24,
2010
Then saved
and
personalised
with your
students

16. What have you found successful? What works for you to encourage students to
reflect on goals? Have you tried one of the examples previously mentioned, how
did it help students to reflect on goals?

17. Let’s watch a 3.30 minute video to see how PLTs
might plan to support students to reflect on their
goals
Please
press
via Web Tour
PLAY
yourself
FUSE LINK:
https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/
THEN ENTER FUSE ID W8DCMY

18. Response to the Video
Put your hand up to grab the microphone
a) What makes a good reflection?
a) How can the PLT benefit teachers to
support students to reflect on their SMART
goals?

19. Possible starting points for reflections
Sentence
stems
See link
below
Resources are
available in the
iMasterclasses
Design Space
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/assessment/preptoyear10/proflearning/module4.htm

20. How to join
iMasterclasses
Design space...
1. Join the Hume Region iMasterclass Design Space
2. Go to Design Spaces
3. Click Available Spaces tab
4. Search by Space ID number (139211104)
5. The space is Open access so click the Actions
box and Join
6. After you have joined click on the title to open
the space

21. In Episode 6…
• Make SMART Goals and reflections available to students,
teacher and parents 24/7..
• Extend the ways that students can reflect, using Web2.0
tools like VOKIs and more

22. How are you feeling about supporting students
to reflect on goals in the classroom?

23. Open microphone/Questions

24. Thank You!
• Libby Delbridge
delbridge.elizabeth.n@edumail.vic.gov.au
• Brendan O’Brien @brendano
obrien.brendan.p@edumail.vic.gov.au
• Gail Stanley
stanley.gail.d@edumail.vic.gov.au

25. Resources:
Ultranet Online Support Module 9 (ultranet support site)
https://ultranet.vic.edu.au/portal/web/support/reflect
DEECD Student Reports-Personal Learning Goals
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/studentreports/schoo
ls/personalgoals/suppmonitorplg.htm
DEECD Prep to Year 10 Assessment
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/assessment/preptoy
ear10/proflearning/module4.htm
References:
Earl, L. M. (2003). Assessment As Learning: Using classroom assessment to
maximize student learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Acknowledgements: Alan and Dora Show Elaborating Mathematics
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