Episode 16 Celebrating Learning Success

In this episode, Dan discusses the importance of celebrating student learning success. He describes how to do this well and connects the celebrations with learning goals and sub-goals. Dan also explains how celebrating student learning success helps to create lifelong learners.Celebrating Learning Success by Daniel Jackson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Join the Facebook CommunityWhatCelebrating success in learning links back to goal setting, creating criteria and exemplars.Celebrate the subgoals and the big winsWhy?Because learning is hard workSetting goals and achieving them is funBut, students need to know when they have achieved the goals and subgoalsCelebrating the success, not only shows students that they were successful but helps them to identify as a successful learnerIt provides further motivation for future learning and a reference point to refer back to when things get hard once again.How?This does not have to be anything bigSimply point out where they have been successfulGive a high-five, a sticker or just congratulate them (publically or not)Refer back to times of success to help motivate them when they are doing it hard it helps to motivate studentsOf course, you can also go bigger:Email or call home to let parents know and let them celebrate with their childReport comments, and gradesCertificates at assembliesGamify your classroom etcJust make sure it is repeatable and fair for everyone who succeedsLifelong LearningAs the students experience success they begin to identify themselves as successful learnersThis provides them with plenty to look back on to help motivate them when they are doing the learning on their ownIt also helps them to identify their own progress in the future which will help them set goals and achieve them in future learningFinally, more success will also increase their confidence and their willingness to try hard things. This in return will help them to develop the skills for learning that they need to become lifelong learnersGive it a go!This week Identify any chance you can to celebrate your student’s learning success.Send an email home to celebrate, Give high fivesGamify your classroomGive out a certificateOr simply get alongside a student and tell them you are proud of the hard work they put in and the achievements they have madeAnother great thing to do is to identify past successes and remind them of those times. The hard work they put in and the learning they achieved. Especially if they need some motivation.