Learning Journey...a walk into the unknown

I have been working with a lot of groups over the past couple of years on the idea of them creating their own learning journeys through a topic.

This has been on the whole very successful with students achieving above their target grade - in some cases for the first time in that particular subject.

The process varies depending on the group but on the whole we discuss what makes a good piece of work and design a class 'success criteria' for what we want to achieve.

Students then have a series of lessons with myself more as a facilitator/negotiator to use a sounding board and to get resources for them which they ask for.

The final presentation / assessment is then peer assessed in line with the success criteria and 'RAG' marked in order to highlight what was done well, could be improved, missed etc...

Final step is to introduce an element of self evaluation which allows students to reflect and set targets for next time.

Good fun, challenging and an interesting experience - never the same twice!