21st CENTURY LEARNING - LEARNING GOALS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA                                                                LINKS:
Literacy in the 21st Century is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable achievement,
personal well-being and full participation in an interconnected and changing world community.

Learning Goals allow students to see where they are going in their learning.
Success Criteria allow students to understand how they are going to get there.

• Students need to know what a successful product should look or sound like.
• So, why don’t we just show students an exemplar?
• We can’t teach students about the future because we don’t know what it will look like.
• Students need to develop a skill set that will make them adaptable to future challenges.
• When students come up with Success Criteria they create a recipe for success!

 

 CO-COACHING                                                                                                                                                                                      The AHS Staff began a co-coaching initiative in 2009 to address the need of providing
our staff with professional development opportunities that are cutting-edge and relevant
to their teaching practice.  We meet twice a semester in a “lunch and learn” format.

Areas of Focus:
2009/2010 – Learning Goals – 20 participants
2010/2011 – Success Criteria – 12 participants

 

Co-Coaching Power Point link

 

 

                      http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/policyfunding/growSuccess.pdf

 

 

 

ONTARIO SECONDARY SCHOOL LITERACY TEST (OSSLT)
                                             2011 REPORT:

In total 303 AHS students wrote the OSSLT in April 2011 and 96.7% passed.

290 students wrote the OSSLT for the first time and 97.3%  passed

13 students wrote the OSSLT for a subsequent time and 84.6% passed

 

 

LITERACY RESROURCES (Information and guide)                               COMING SOON

 

The following are literacy resources that provide information about the OSSLT. 
Information about the various tasks that the students have to complete, on the OSSLT, is also available.

 

CROSS CURRICULAR LITERACY STRATGIES:

 

• The following are literacy strategies/handouts that can be implemented in various departments.  Teachers can modify these strategies and handouts for their own courses.

 

Exemplars from departments:                                                  COMING SOON

 

• In preparation for the OSSLT, each department at AHS is responsible for preparing the students for a particular task on the OSSLT. 
• The following are literacy tasks/resources/assignments created by various departments.

 

THINK LITERACY:

 

• Think Literacy is a user-friendly resource that provides relevant and adaptable literacy resources and strategies that can be implemented in several departments.
• http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/studentsuccess/thinkliteracy/files/Reading.pdf
• http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/studentsuccess/thinkliteracy/files/Writing.pdf
• http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/studentsuccess/thinkliteracy/files/Oral.pdf

 

MOODLE:

http://moodle.yrdsb.ca/course/view.php?id=10155