Strategy 1: Clarifying, Sharing, and Understanding Learning Intentions

In this video series Dr. Dylan Wiliam offers 5 grouping strategies. Here he discusses the proper role of learning intentions and how their applications can vary from classroom to classroom and subject to subject. In most cases having a learning objective is a hard and fast policy. However, a learning intention may be written by the teacher up on the board copied by the students into their notebooks and subsequently ignored for the rest of a lesson. So what are best practices?