Why is this important for tutoring (and teaching)? It is important for students to know what they are working towards, what the goal is and what it looks like. Learning intentions and success criteria clarify this for them. When learning intentions and success criteria are paired with an informative rubric, students and teachers receive meaningful feedback on progress towards students’ proficiency.

Using feedback in student centered instruction involves a rubric that creates guide post for students. In this blog, I go into more detail how I use Standards Mastery and Thinking Classroom strategies to build a rubric that guides instruction and progress while also building confidence in students.

How can teachers monitor students progress to make sure they are learning the standards? Standards Mastery is one strategy that will help. In this blog, I provide a brief explanation with an example of what that might look like in a rubric.

When we think about students learning, the typical image is students sitting and working at their desks. That notion is challenged in Building Thinking Classrooms. Peter Liljedahl’s research tested and revealed different ways that students engage with the learning process and found one way that disrupts the disengaged behaviors that interfere with learning.