Reflection and Goal Setting

A big focus in the elementary school this year is metacognition--getting students to think about their thinking and to reflect on their learning.  Research indicates that having students reflect on their learning allows students to make connections with previous knowledge and build on it, leading to a deeper level of understanding and synthesis of knowledge.  One way we do this is to set aside one class period per week to reflect on our learning.  We have a variety of things we do to reflect on our learning in 4LB--we may:

• go through some of our math "exit tickets" and record in our math journals
• reflect on a piece of writing we've done
• set goals for what we want to accomplish during writing time
• share our writing and notice what we did well
• update our E-portfolio blogs (another way of reflecting on our learning)
• evaluate ourselves based on rubrics

Reflecting on math

Sharing our writing and reflecting on what we did well

Looking over our work